| We hope you enjoy our Vietnam Veteran's photo gallery – it's made-up entirely from submissions
by members and visitors. If you have a picture you would like to submit, send
it with caption information to GW President. [ Click on a
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The following images were submitted by: James
(Chris) Klinedinst.
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| PBR's on Operation Clearwater |
PBR's on Operation Clearwater |
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The following images submitted by Melinda Lambert-Gabriel, daughter
of: Jimmie Lambert
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| Jimmie Lambert, Boat Captain RivDiv 543 |
Jimmie Lambert was laid to rest at Arlington in August of 2000. |
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The following images submitted by: Fred Languell
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River Division Maintenance Officers
All of the River Division Maintenance Officers at a Conference April 1970. Fred Languell - River Division 593 is kneeling in the middle/front with glasses, to his left is LT Dick Hicks. Front Row, Far Right, Kneeling: LT Brown, River Division 552, Ben Luc.
Please, help identify other maintenance
officers.
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The following images submitted by: Ronald Lepak
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| Getting ready for the Golden Dust
Off! |
535's patio bar-YRBM-20. Summer
1969 |
RIVDIV 535 boats leaving Chou
Duc
on Vinh Te Canal. to late summer 1969 |
RIVDIV 535 Boats at operating
base, Cambodian Border, east of Vinh Gia, Vinh Teh Canal. VS755620 |
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RIVDIV 535, life on the Starboard
side of the YRMB-20, late summer 1969.
Lt. Ron Lepak and RivDiv
yeoman |
RIVDIV 535 Boats at operating
base, Cambodian Border, east of Vinh Gia, Vinh Teh Canal. VS755620.
August/September 1969 |
RIVDIV 535 on Vinh Te Canal on
way to patrol area - late summer 1969. Notice brown bottoms. 535 kept brown
bottoms until turnover. |
Locks on Vinh Teh Canal,
VS995760.
Destroyed during French Vietnam war 1950's |
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| French Locks, Vinh Te
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PBR 725 being lowered into well
deck of USS Garrett County, 18 July 1969 |
PBR 725 , 21 Nov 1969. Lt Waters,
Division Maintenance officer,
taking boat to YRBM after action night of 20
Nov, 1969 |
X-mas presents, December 1969,
Vinh Te Canal |
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| PBR 725, 18 July 1969 |
Patrol Officer Mike. 535 patrols
used the call sign and first initial of the patrol officer. Mike was for
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Lt. Lepak, Ass't. Sec Nav
Shillito. Dog and Pony show. It must have been the last day or the first day
of the month. Visitors didn't pay taxes for earnings during a month they spent
any time in a combat zone. Hence most inspections/visits occurred on the last
day of one month and the first day of the next month. Therefore: two months
worth of "no taxes."
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Lt. Lepak. Late summer 1969, YRBM-20, Bassac River, near Chou Duc. No one was ever that young!
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| Capt. Faulk (CTF116), Lt. Lepak,
Mr. Shillito |
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The following images submitted by:
Pat Madden and David White
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River Division 593 January 1969aboard USS Harnett County (LST
821) at Ben Luc on the Vam Co Dong River, Operation Giant Slingshot. Change of
Command Ceremony. |
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The following images submitted by: John
Malovic
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| "Too close" John Malovic, PBR 737. |
PBR MKI out of Vinh Long, 1968, Div unknown. |
John Malovic, RivDiv 573, Delta Patrol, PBR 737. |
Riv Div 573 - boat unknown maybe foxtrot patrol, looks like their
"F-troop" flag on their antenna. |
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| James Roberts - taking care of business |
"ON PATROL" PBR 737. |
Bill Keeler, RivDiv 573 - 1968. |
John Malovic checking pumps. |
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| "I'm ready" John Malovic, Delta patrol. |
Riv Div 573 boat dock. Sadec 1968. |
Pinkstock NSA Sadec 1968. |
Annapolis Hotel, October 1968. |
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| View from Annapolis Hotel. |
ENS Foster, RivDiv 573, Sadec 1968. |
Sadec on the Mekong River, 1968. |
EN1 James Roberts, boat captain PBR 737. |
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| River Division 573 compound entrance, Sadec 1968. |
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The following images submitted by: Russell McConkey
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Russell McConkey -
River Section 513 Vinh Long '66-'67
Forward gunner for Robby Benson
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| Joe Vitale |
Joe Vitale |
Joe Vitale and Rodney Morgan |
Chief David Clouse |
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Black Pony, OV 10, photos submitted by: Gary
Moss
narrative: Gary Marker.
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The Naval Air Museum, here in Pensacola, had a Dedication Ceremony for
an OV-10A Bronco. The aircraft was an actual VAL-4 Black Pony. The co-pilot,
former LTJG Jeff Johnson described how, in this actual aircraft, in support of
ambushed PBR units in the U Minh Forest, in the middle of the diving attack,
received fatal fire through the canopy, killing the pilot,
LT Pete Russell. He
was the first "Black Pony" casualty of the war. This occurred on
25 May
1969.
To all,
LTJG Jeff Johnson pulled the Bronco out of a dive just prior to
crashing. We The Black Ponies were told by PBR crews that the OV-10A Bronco was
at treetop level when Jeff Johnson saved the aircraft from his back seat pilot
position.
With LT Pete Russell KIA, while in the Bronco's front seat,
LTJG Johnson landed at Binh Thuy with our Hero Pete Russell joining many other
Naval Aviators who died with their boots on while fighting the
enemy and
preserving freedom.
Gary Marker
VAL-4 Black Ponies Plank
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