Vietnam veteran Pat Doyle looks out into the Hampton River while riding in PBR-721 Tuesday morning September 10, 2019. Vietnam veterans who fought along the rivers in small, heavily-armed PBR ...

Vietnam comes alive on river. By Jim Haley / Herald Writer; Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:00pm; ... Designated PBR for “patrol boat, river,” the local boat was used for the documentary.

The Mark II PBR (Patrol Boat River) is in the process of being restored to a condition similar to the time of the Vietnam War, when it was part of the Brown Water Navy.

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 ...

Muskegon native Robert Bowyer left the military in 2005, but the military never left him, and now he's working diligently on bringing a rare piece of Vietnam War history back to life in his hometown.

The story of the PBR 750 is similar to the other historic member of the Rose Festival Fleet, a restored PT boat. PT-658 still belongs to the Navy, but it’s on loan to a nonprofit group that ...

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.

A PBR crewman mans his twin air-cooled .50-caliber machine gun mount as his craft patrols the Vung Tau River in Vietnam in April 1966. Every PBR ran with a crew of four: one captain, a gunner, an ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD)- A lengthy renovation process is over at Patriots Point as the patrol boat in the Vietnam War exhibit was put back into the water Tuesday morning. A 90 ton crane lifted ...

Ralph Fries choked up as the small boat pulled into the Hampton River. It was the kind of boat he fixed in Vietnam so “the kids” could ride out again and risk their lives. They called him ...