Sgt. Grit,
This is my Zippo, I bought it while aboard the USS Cabildo LSD 16 in early 1965. I was a tank driver with B Company, 1st. Tank Battalion. We were participating in Operation Silver Lance, which involved a 7-day cruise off the coast of Mexico, and a surf landing from a Mike Boat at Camp Pendleton. Hopefully you can read what is engraved on it, my name, serial #, and the places I had been when I had the engraving done in the Philippines later in 1965.
I remember letting a salty E-5 use my lighter once, and he remarked, "you haven't been many places, have you?" That was before my Carrib., and Med. Cruises. You can see by the shape of it, that I used it as a hammer to many times, had to send it to Zippo to have the hinge replaced.
Semper Fi
John M. Hunter
Cpl. E-4
1964-1968
RVN 1965-1966