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Bookmark or Share- Black Widow Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Yangtze Patrol group to VADM ...LCDR Arthur G. Robinson, when he commanded the Yangtze Patrol river gunboat U.S.S. Palos, pictured with other Asiatic fleet or Yangtze Patrol C.O.’s at Chungking, China, 1,326 miles upriver from Shanghai, in 1926. Pictured in front are CIC Asiatic Fleet ADM Henry H. Hough and Commander, Yangtze Patrol (ComYangPat) RADM Henry H. Hough.
- USS Panay (PR-5), 1928 Yangtze Patrol Gunboat, 1:192 scale resin kitThis 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.
- The Real Sand Pebbles? - US MILITARIA FORUMThe 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.
- Anyone have an identified Desert Storm Purple Heart?I'm very interested Purple Hearts awarded for "smaller"(casualty-wise) conflicts. For example Nicaragua, Haiti, Yangtze, Chinese Civil War, Urgent Fury, Berlin Disco bombing (yes, Purple Hearts were awarded), etc Attached is documentation on a PH that was awarded to a Marine who was WIA in 1898 while serving with Huntington's Battalion in Cuba.
- "The Sand Pebbles Topic" Asiatic Fleet - In 1965 The Sand Pebbles ...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 ...
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