Gallery

AUTHOR'S NOTE:  Our gallery of contributed photos and artifacts. Please send along relevant photos and I will post below: 

Tango Boat on patrol at dusk on the Vinh Te Canal.   Photo from Jim Rost

A map of Kidder's journey back to Vietnam before he wrote Backtracking in Brown Water

Jarvinen's Boat with 535 insignia 

Our Old Navy Base at Binh Thuy

Thu at Vinh Gia

Gordon Johnston on brown water

Rolly on Vinh Te Canal, 1969

Rolly (right) talking things through with a mate on the deck of his Patrol Boat,  SouthVietnam 1969

Vietnam era PBRs (Patrol Boat, River) on display for returning veterans in Hampton marina

PBR's with current Navy boats called RIB's (rigid-inflatable boats)

Butch Jarvinen - River Division (535) and Rolly Kidder (535) catch up 

A US Navy Officer addresses veterans in front of Dennis Ambruso
(leaning on the .50 cal Machine gun).

Dennis restored the PBR boat on display this weekend.