In December of 1970, CBS News reported on an exchange ceremony where U.S. Navy river patrol boats were turned over to the ...

When Daniel Parshall got his draft notice from the Army in 1966, he went immediately to the Air Force to sign up. Just out of college, he had been working as an engineer in Illinois. He passed the Air ...

On the My Tho river, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1968: Seaman and gunner Stephen Artz is silhouetted sitting atop a U.S. Navy patrol boat. Artz was part of a flame river patrol boat patrolling the My Tho ...

DE SOTO — Life along the Mississippi River is considerably more peaceful for Gerald “Joe” Joseph of rural De Soto, than it was during his days in charge of patrols by groups of U.S. Navy patrol boats ...

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