Navy buckle

[scuba1970]

Found this today. Anyone know about these?

 

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[Argentium]

Can't help you with any info about the buckle , but it is a great find ! can't wait to see what the facts are !!

 

[fyrffytr1]

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS White Plains, after the Battle of White Plains during the American Revolutionary War.

• The first White Plains (CVE-66) was an escort aircraft carrier in service from 1943 to 1946, and notable for action in the Battle off Samar.

• The second White Plains (AFS-4) was a combat stores ship in service from 1968 to 1995.

Your buckle is obviously from the second ship. I think it is a civilian style buckle that may have been purchased by a sailor on the ship. I was on the Enterprise CVAN-65 and bought a buckle that had a raised profile of the boat along with it's name for a couple dollars from a store in San Francisco.

 

[ryan1980]

That's awesome!

 

[BosnMate]

I wore a non regulation buckle on my working uniform aboard ship, so the sailor was probably wearing it on duty. The Navy was really hen house about uniform regulations other than that. On liberty you could be arrested and end up in jail for being out of uniform.

 

[ryan1980]

Make a guy wonder what he was doing when he lost it .

 

[hubcap76]

Cool buckle for sure, I wear my late grandfathers navy buckle from his time aboard the USS Kidd DD661 now a naval museum in Baton Rouge. Here is a pic of his buckle.



Pretty sure he had this custom made.

 

[pjduff]

I actually served onboard the White Plains from Oct '92 till her decommissioning in Apr '95 when she was at her home port in Guam. The White Plains now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean somewhere since she was sunk for target practice in 2002. Hard telling the time frame of your buckle, great find though!!

 

[scuba1970]

I actually served onboard the White Plains from Oct '92 till her decommissioning in Apr '95 when she was at her home port in Guam. The White Plains now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean somewhere since she was sunk for target practice in 2002. Hard telling the time frame of your buckle, great find though!! <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=877192"/>

Would you want?

 

[scuba1970]

I actually served onboard the White Plains from Oct '92 till her decommissioning in Apr '95 when she was at her home port in Guam. The White Plains now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean somewhere since she was sunk for target practice in 2002. Hard telling the time frame of your buckle, great find though!! <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=877192"/>

Lol looks much bigger in pic than on buckle

 

[pjduff]

Would you want?

No, you keep that and put it in a display with all your other finds, but thank you for the offer though!! I have one similar to that somewhere around here.

 

[pjduff]

Lol looks much bigger in pic than on buckle

Lol!! Yes, quite intimidating for a back country farm boy fresh outta school that had never even been out of the state before to go to a Navy ship on a tiny little island I had never heard of before!!

 

[WA4EQO]

Very nice. I used to have one exactly like it. I served on USS White Plains AFS-4 in "E" Division from 1983-1985. We lovingly called her the "White Pig" or "The Albino Swine-o." She was a Mars Class combat stores ship deployed in the Western Pacific / Indian Ocean. It is not an official Navy buckle. It seems to me that I bought that from a vendor in the Philippines. Beautiful find.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[ks coyote]

Very nice buckle. Great find.