2009年4月26日 · I read a few passing mentions of the pith helmet and the fact that the cap tally was placed on it, but for years I couldn't find a picture of it in use. I finally got my hands on a copy of Kemp Tolley's specially printed book of Yangtze Patrollers newsletters and found a few blurry pictures of it being work.

2009年8月23日 · Here is a beautiful mint condition Navy Yangtze Medal with a mint miniature in its mint condition original numbered box. I also bought a large named Navy group with a Yangtze that has its original numbered box. I don't think I have ever seen an original numbered box with its Yangtze medal and to turn up two at the same time is really neat.

2022年4月24日 · To begin, the first USS PIGEON (AM-47) a Lapwing class WWI minesweeper converted to a gunboat for service on the Yangtze. ...and after her conversion to (ASR-6) a diving & submarine rescue 'blackfish' vessel serving the China Fleet PIGEON as a seaplane tender in China PIGEON during diving operations in China

2023年1月17日 · This is the latest USN ship that I've commissioned my friend, Dennis, to build for me. It's being built as a tribute to COMYANGPAT at the time that six new gunboats for the Yangtze Patrol were built at Shanghai between 1926-27, and commissioned between 1927-28. All were capable of reaching Chungking at high water, and all year-round.

2012年10月29日 · Marine Corps Yangtze MNo. 175 to Sgt. Harris F. Twohey Marine Corps Yangtze MNo. 334 to Sgt. Robert E. Cason Marine Corps Yangtze issued in November 1937 per Muster Rolls: Mno. 3655 Alex Chiginski Mno. 3806 Charles F. Ackerman Mno. 3818 George O. Gedicks Mno. 3820 Theodore G. Hansen Mno. 3876 George T. Ramsey Mno. 3897 Henry P. …

2009年5月11日 · The Yangtze was roughly divided into three sections....from Shanghai to Hankow the river was wide and could during most of the year accommodate ocean going ships. From Hankow to I'Chaing was the middle river and above I'Chaing to Chungking was considered the upper river and was much narrower, shallower, faster and more dangerous.

2013年2月14日 · Yangtze would be between the Marine Corps Expeditionary and the American Defense. The Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal was established in 1919. The Yangtze Service Medal was established in 1930.

2010年5月14日 · Roster for the China Relief was published by Planchet Press and OMSA. Partial rosters for the Cuban Pac, 1st Nicaraguan, Mexico, 1915 Haitian, 2nd Nic and Yangtze were published by Gleim in the New Medal Letters, reprinted by OMSA in The Gleim Medal Letters. Scott Smith has published rosters for all of the available USMC medals.

2011年4月3日 · His Yangtze medal was for service on the USS Houston, CA-30, in 1931 and 1932 in China. Captain Bernet saw sea duty on USS New Mexico, USS Idaho (Gunnery), USS Mississippi (Navagator); USS Houston (Asiatic Flag), USS Fox DD234, Commanding Officer AO-62 Taluga, APA-38 USS Chilton, DESDIV 92, and DESRON 10.

2019年10月6日 · Funding for Palos and Monocacy was obtained in June 1912, as a result of the recommendation two years earlier by Naval Shipbuilding Board president, Admiral George Dewey, for a new class of river gunboats for the Yangtze, with 3-foot draft, 14-knot speed, twin-screws, "several rudders for extreme handiness," combined coal- and oil-fueled ...