S River Patrol Boat crewman mans his twin air-cooled .50 caliber machine gun mount with belt link feed as his craft patrols the Yung Tau River in Vietnam on 14 April 1966 in anticipation of ...

The 31-foot river patrol boats with a fiberglass hulls were a military mainstay in the U.S. conflict in Vietnam for halting movement of Vietcong troops and supplies. * They were called PBR or ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Only around 36 PBR (Patrol Boat River) boats from the Vietnam War can be found in the United States. Of those, only around six are capable of going out on the water.

Instead, this PBR—the Patrol Boat Riverine—was one of the most important fighting vessels that played a key role in protecting U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.

The boat was an MK1 River Patrol Boat, or PBR. Wahler is intimately familiar with this type of boat as he was a patrol officer with a PBR unit during the Vietnam War from 1970 to 1971.

All three were once crew members on a PBR — “patrol boat river” — the same type of craft featured in the movie, ... During the Vietnam War, the river patrol boats were part of Task Force ...

David Pizzoferrato maneuvers his PBR-6927 through the Hampton River Tuesday morning September 10, 2019. Vietnam veterans who fought along the rivers in small, heavily-armed PBR boats are gathered ...

A refurbished Vietnam-era patrol boat will travel the Mississippi River next month, ... Riverine (PBR) 300 miles down the Mississippi River in September, ...

Ralph Richason and Ken McCorry last saw one another when they were teenagers at war in Vietnam. “The last time I laid eyes on this man was 45 years ago,” said Richason, of Texas, placin… ...

The L&A Veterans Council is proposing the purchase of a Vietnam War-era river patrol boat. The Uniflite PBR model, built in 1972, is similar to the patrol boats used in the epic 1979 Vietnam War ...

A refurbished Vietnam-era patrol boat will travel the Mississippi River next month, stopping in Burlington along the way to offer veterans a ride.