US NAVY - USS SABLE IX-81 Challenge Coin for Sale

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US NAVY - USS SABLE IX-81 Challenge Coin For Sale

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US NAVY - USS SABLE IX-81 Challenge Coin :
$14.99

This is a great looking US NAVY - USS SABLE (IX-81) commemorative challenge coin. Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16\" in diameter. Front side of coin is printed while the rear side is raised lettering and gold plated.Coin is contained in an acrylic snap tight holder.

USS Sable (IX-81) was a training ship of the United States Navy during World War II. Originally built as the passenger ship Greater Buffalo,a sidewheel excursion steamer, she was purchased by the Navy in 1942 and converted to a training aircraft carrier to be used on the Great Lakes. Lacking a hangar deck, elevators or armament, she was not a true warship, but provided advanced training of naval aviators in carrier takeoffs and landings.

On her first day of service fifty-nine pilots became qualified within nine hours of operations, with each making eight takeoffs and landings. Pilot training was conducted seven days a week in all types of weather conditions. One aviator who trained upon theSablewas future president George H.W. Bush.

Following World War II,Sable was decommissioned on 7 November 1945. She was sold for scrapping on 7 July 1948 to the H.H. Buncher Company.Sable and her sister ship, USS Wolverine, hold the distinction of being the only freshwater, coal-fired, side paddle-wheel aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy

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