1/66-1/68
An Thoi
1/11/68-1/69
silfox@san.rr.com
dwi618@aol.com
?retired EN1 4/30/81? *deceased 8/12/1990 in Union, KY
5/29/68-9/69
Randolph Rex Storey, BM3
Larry Joseph Gentry, RD2
11/18/67-
allynsul@comcast.net
John Scott Hatcher Jr, QM3
John Bair
PCF 96 - Lake Charles, LA
abevis@peoplepc.com
Thomas F. Curry, RD3
juanita@McClintick.org
was from Florida
Richard Roy Greenig, SN
Frederick Lee Brady, EN3
5/69-?
3/19/68-
William Robert Boonar, QM2
Michael Lee Maddox, QM2
left country 1/5/67- *retired Captain 8/19/92 - San Jose, CA
DaNang/Hue
10/67-10/14/68
10/69-3/70
- was from Kentucky. An Thoi
1967
contact Larry Wasikowski at: larrywaz@swiftboats.net or call (402) 331-2504, To return to the Swift Boat Sailors Association homepage or to
*retired CWO-3 on 12/1/76, *retired BM1 6/19/79 - was from California, *retired EN1 10/31/80 - was from Louisiana, *retired ETCM 7/19/91 - was from Kentucky, *retired EN1 10/31/80 - was from Colorado, ?PCF 88? David Louis Larson, LTJG
Duane William Buckingham, LTJG, OinC
Steven Jacob Brown, QM3
Boston, MA
Keith Lambert Erickson, LTJG/LT, OinC
3/11/68-
Richard A. Hayson, EN2
?-10/69-?
Steven Edward Weekley, GMG3
William Albert Shumadine, LTJG, OinC
11/4/67-
Joseph Anthony Billiot Jr, BM3
Robert Carl Johnson, LTJG, OinC
Cat Lo
the 4th crewman (unknown)
Robert Dwane Jenkins, GMGSN/3
An Thoi
2/14/68-2/69
Richard Joseph Townsend, SN
7/10/66-
Qui Nhon
4/3/66-1/5/67
from Winston Salem, NC
Peter Alan Davis, RD3
A typical operating crew was normally six personnel made up of an officer, boatswain, radar/communications operator, engineer and a pair of dedicated machine gunners.
6/28/68-6/69
James Leroy Smith, BM2
Pat (Nmn) Dowdy, GMGSN/3
Fred N. Morris, BM1
John Clarence Simonz, GMG3
Crew 82
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was from California
was from Montana
Here are several photos of the PCF-04 recovery operation conducted by the crew of USS Krishna (ARL-38). 6/8/67-12/17/68
6/5/68-
Qui Nhon
Joe Paul Reeves, BM1
fnuessle@aol.com
R. R. Cavazos, SN
David Earl Rogers, LTJG, OinC
They were known as the workhorses of the US Navy’s Vietnam Qui Nhon
was from Arkansas
6/6/68-
the 3rd crewman (unknown)
12/26/68-
An Thoi
Michael L. Profitt, GMGSN
Game Warden operations are increasingly denying the enemy the use of inland
7/27/68-
3/29/67-
4/13/67-
Robert Clarence Burgett, EN2
Jerome R. Johnson, QM2
Qui Nhon
Ronald Leon Street, LTJG, OinC
Any entries new since the last update to the site, are
?PCF 94? *deceased 1/16/2013 in Columbia, SC
An Thoi
William Edward Hand, LT, OinC
Qui Nhon
Photo provided. ?PCF 88 & 55? DaNang
deceased 5/12/00 in Garden Grove, CA
Boston, MA
6/5/68-
Cat Lo
Severn, MD
8/13/68-
1968-69
Martin Gerald Baca, GMG3
5/69-5/70
USS Vance crewman - occasional swift rider - Vancouver, WA
Whiskey
Paul Bernard Lawrence, QM2
?Cat Lo? 3/66-12/67
Anthony E. Fulette, GMG3
11/28/67-
Victor Valentine Stonge, BM3/2
Name\Rank
Jack Roy Revard Jr, QM2
Joseph Mulholland, QM2
2/24/68-
?DaNang? Frederick Williamson, YN2
Peter T. Buchanan, HM2/1
Craig Patrick Coyle, YN3
David Bartlett "Buddah" Dunlap, LTJG, OinC
An Thoi
2/24/68-2/69
melneef@frontier.net
?Sacramento, CA?
DaNang/Chu Lai/Cat Lo/Sea Float/An Thoi
2/12/68-
Who Designed the Division Insignia
12/5/05 in Snyder, CO
6/68-3/693/69-6/69
2/20/66-1/6/67
Junior R. Mitchell, BM3
5/4/67-
Thomas Edward Burton, QM2
Charles Eugene Wyatt, LTJG, OinC
Bob Pfeifer
9/20/67-9/16/68
2/23/68-3/69
Richard D. Donovan Jr, EN2
9/6/68-69
Gary Wayne Blackmon, RDSN
8/22/67-
11/66-11/67
*retired BM1 7/30/76 - was from New Jersey
- from the east coast, *deceased 8/1/1994 in Houston, TX - attorney, ?retired OS1 8/31/84? Fresno, CA
Gary Dee Evans, GMG3
3/11/68-
was from Dowagiac, MI
Byrne W. Mayer Jr, QM2
?-11/6911/69-3/70
Jese Ramon Vines, YN2
Darryl Lee Williams, EN2
5/18/68-7/5/68
Thomas Anthony Polaski, RD3
- was from California
John Ferraro Jr, SN
12/26/68-
Qui Nhon/Cat Lo
10/67-
Cat Lo
?PCF 35 for 20 months? Walter Max Lyons, GMG2
12/69-3/70
1/16/68-
Cat Lo
I was on the commissioning crew of the swift boats in 1965. FL
*retired GMGC 1/31/81 - was from California, *retired GMGC on 11/30/84 - was from California, *retired CWO4 8/19/88 - was from Virginia, *retired YNC 1/31/85 - was from New Mexico, Chula Vista, CA -
john.bair@filebank.cts.com
4/16/68-6/69
Clifford Earl Hillis, RD3
Harleysville, PA
8/26/68-
was from Oklahoma
John Walton Jr, QM2
Stephen Ray Crick, GMG3
Jeffrey Paul Matuewezski, BM3
7/69-1/70
Kurt Eugene Theile Jr, QM2
8/17/66-8/15/67
Ramona, CA
James Charles Edwards, GMG2
3/9/68-
DaNang
- was from Mississippi
Power was served through 2 x Detroit …
2/14/68-
4/20/68-8/68
10/28/68-12/69-? 5/15/68-
Charles Lee Roach, BM3
assigned to NSA DaNang - retired HTCS 12/8/77 - Concho, AZ
Leland Wayne Brantley, ENS/LTJG, OinC
10/15/66-
hit in the wrist by a .51 caliber round passing
James Muril Oertli Jr, SN
the 5th crewman (?EN?)
- Okeechobee, FL
Harold S. Walbridge, QM2
Qui Nhon
?retired 1 10/19/1993?
3/24/68-
12/26/68-10/69
Edward L. Geary, SN
4/3/68-
*retired QMC 4/30/83 - was from Florida
Bravo
TRF to COMPHIBTRAPAC - was from Lake Stevens, WA
DaNang
DaNang
John C. Sutherland, SF1
9/15/67-
was from the South
Lake Villa, IL
7/17/67-
12/26/68-
An Thoi
Atlanta, GA
*retired LCDR 5/19/85 - Laurel, MD
Swift Boat Operations in Vietnam I enlisted in the Navy on February 5, 1968; that was 3 days after my 19th birthday.
Larry W. Roberts, RD3/2
4/23/67-
Qui Nhon
James Thomas Lloyd Jr, RD3
Pascual G. Miller, GMG1
- *retired GMGCS on 10/19/87 -
George Michael Jamrock, EN3
Cat Lo/An Thoi
Ronald Joseph Dickman, BM2
Billy E. Carr, GMG3
An Thoi/DaNang
Midland, TX
The Patrol Craft Fast (PCF) became commonly known as the Swift Boat and was the most prominent of the Navy’s riverine patrol craft during the Vietnam …
Ira Clinton Hudson Jr, EN2
Stillwater, MN
5/9/68-7/13/68
7/16/67-
Qui Nhon/An Thoi
9/15/67-
6/5/68-
Normal Crew
4/20/67-7/68
7/30/68-
1969, WIA in late June/early July 1969 (gunshot) - Topeka, KS, *retired BMC 10/31/80 - was from Tennessee, trained in Coronado 5/6 thru 7/5/68 - ?retired ENC 1/19/90? DaNang/Cat Lo/Qui Nhon
12/68-6/11/69
Time activities have, for all practical purposes, sealed off the coast. 5/29/68-
?-3/68
Cam Ranh Bay
Charles K. Russell, RD2
William Henry Murphy, LTJG, OinC
10/2/68-
6/20/68-6/69
Thomas J. Gili, QM2
1/30/68-8/68
2/22/67-
An Thoi
Ronald Lee Sunley, RD3
7/27/68-7/69
Andy Stinson
John Aaron Smith, RD3
Higbee, LTJG, OinC
12/3168-
12/1/67-11/681-10/70
3/24/68-69
*retired ENC 6/30/83 - was from California
5/18/68-7/10/68
was from Waco, TX
2/26/68-
Crew 108C
was from California
PCFs 20-29
DaNang
Charles Lester Trahan, BM3/2
was from California
- Louisville, KY, was from Kingsport, TN - retired from Eastman Kodak, *retired BMC 11/26/75 - Virginia Beach, VA. ?retired QMC 5/31/82 - was from New York? *retired BMCM 12/1/87 - Clarkson, KY
An Thoi
was from Philadelphia, PA
navybean41@yahoo.com
Richard G. Carlsey, BM3
Base
5/69-5/70
bmcshaff@gmail.com
Cat Lo/An Thoi
Pat Buck
An Thoi
John W. Publsey, OinC
James Hobert Arnold Jr, RD1
DaNang
DaNang
(T.or J.)
Brian J. Barnes
Douglas M. Dimmick, BM2
Clyde Lee Turner, EN3
Qui Nhon
David Michael Hubbard, GMGSN
?
Cat Lo
was from Missouri
Daniel R. "Sully" Sullivan, GMG3
4/3/68-69
Swift Boat Officers, but without a boat or crew assignmentAny entries new since the last update to the site, are
Gregory Dane Olsen, EN3
Lon D. Marlow III, RM3
Joseph Francis Cahill Jr, LTJG, OinC
Frank William Elberson, BM1
Allen, TX
Material Officer
5/9/68-
5/1/68-
Terry Lee McMillion, BM3
Gary Hicks Elam, EN3
chengscholl@outlook.com
Plus, the 50-foot boats were heavily armed.
Eugene Edward Kelly, LTJG, OinC
Arnold R. Ullua, QM1
?PCF-51?
Alpha
Leslie Clelland Anderson, EN2
web & spider, tattooed across his back), trained VNN crews for swift boat service - Anaheim, CA, *retired GMG1 9/4/76 - *deceased 9/24/2006 in Macon, GA, *retired OSC 10/31/80 - was from Virginia, ?PCFs 11, 74 w/ LT Joseph Fachinger & BMC Davis? *deceased 1/8/2008 in Wilmington, NC
was from Los Angeles, CA area
7/26/68-7/69
Cam Ranh Bay/Sa Dec
3/23/68-
6/9/67-
left country 5/8/68 - was from Colorado
Crew
Hillery Arthur Parrack
?PCFs 43, 46 & 47?
RD2 Kenneth Peter West - KIA 6/22/69 - was from Butte, MT - drowned
*deceased 6/8/1998 in Spokane, WA
Cat Lo
7/68-69
*retired BM1 12/23/74 - was from Wisconsin
Jerry Lee Smith, GMM3
wkholloway@hotmail.com
10/2/68-
6/19/67-
Gary Edward Smith, RDSN
was from Maryland
Hector Homero Garza, GMGSN
Tucson, AZ
Gary Lee Suarez, LTJG, OinC
T. Jones, RMSN
3/25/68-
Allan Dean Moffatt, BM3
David G. Prentiss, LTJG, OinC
rlarkam@satx.rr.com
Frederick J. Sleman
Richard Samuel "Hippy" Hipskind, RMSN/3
1/66-? Walter L. Howell Jr, SN
Michael P. McHargue, GMG2
?PCF 19?
Crew 97C
Thomas Nelson Richman, LTJG, OinC
Qui Nhon
Robert N. Baptist, QM2
An Thoi
Stephan W. Barmgart, OinC
5/17/68-
6/6/67-12/18/67
Echo
An Thoi
Mineola, TX
Gary Wayne Hutton, GMGSN
lpalmer@wavecable.com
1/69-6/69
Frankie L. Robertson, EN1
?9/68?
Crew 23B
jechubb@verizon.net
*retired BMCS 4/30/91 - was from Nevada
Oregon City, OR
hit in the wrist by a .51 caliber round passing
- *deceased 2/16/92 in Hernando,
?Cat Lo? Thomas A.
PCF 88
?Swiftee or Staff? Cam Ranh Bay
May 68
Allen L(ee) Bartholomew, ETR2
James Carney Round Jr, RDSN
7/68-69
Golf
Cat Lo
Squadron Boatswain
1968-69
An Thoi/Cat Lo
12/68-
Michael Peter Danicich, BM3
hoople333@yahoo.com
was from Oregon or Washington
?68-69?
?PCF 47 & 45?
?transferred to USS Satyr
6/1/68-69
Jerry Ray Simer, QM2
Bridgewater, NJ
Crew
*deceased 10/6/2005 in Marrero, LA
Auburn, WA
US Coast Guard - WPB-82316 CGC Point Mast - Baldwin, WI
DaNang
Qui Nhon
Frank Spillers
Ronald Lynn Deibert, RD3
Lay, RMSN
Qui Nhon
?PCF 89, 90 & RVN advisor?
5/15/66-4/6/67
Cam Ranh Bay
4/10/67-
James Loman Jackson, RM2
Qui Nhon
Crew
Milton D. Maxwell, EN2
Daniel J. Frantsen, RD3
transferred to COMRIVPATFOR RVN
Bobbie M. Kelley, EN3
Anthony Ben Santistevan
was from Californiar
joecahill@bcgm.net
10/2/68-
1966
Ernest L. Messer, QM2
66-4/8/67
Qui Nhon
??/69-? 8/11/68- 7/69
John Anthony Trischitti, QM2
?Cat Lo? ?-10/69-2/70-? Wayne Bruce Pollock, GMG2
John Henry Harms, LTJG/LT, OinC
Qui Nhon
Eric Howard Sesskin, QM2/1
Richland, WA
Ernest L. Hamm, EN2
- *retired GMG1 11/11/71 - *deceased 3/6/03 in Mesa, AZ, ?PCF 6?
PCFs 99, 40, 9 - Mint Hill, NC
1970
Michael Andrew Jasper, GMG2
An Thoi
Chris Herbert Wayland, GMGSN
?Swiftee or Staff?
Cam Ranh Bay
Qui Nhon
12/2/67-11/68
James Ward Henry, EN3/2
vfw7293@gmail.com
Glenn (Nmn) Thomas, RD2
- was from Indiana, medevaced 3/8/67 - *retired LCDR 4/19/83 - San Diego, CA, *retired BM1 7/30/76 - was from New Jersey, *retired QMC 4/30/84 - *deceased 1/27/06 in Seaford, DE, Richard Gresham Stoneburner Jr, LTJG, OinC, *retired CWO4 7/1/86 - was from Mississippi, transferred 2/24/67 to the NAVHOSP at San Diego, CA - Navarre, FL, *retired EN1 2/25/77 - was from California.
7/69-3/70
at the US Navy Amphibious Base Coronado, CA
1/21/66-1/9/67
DaNang
Joseph W(illiam) Wall Jr, EN1
An Thoi
66-67
DaNang
site, are shown in
An Thoi
10/9/67-11/19/67
James Roger Lee, BM3/2
*deceased 4/19/11 in Chicago, IL
- San Benito, TX
raf2ej@comcast.net
Juliet
*deceased 5/18/00 in Hartford, WI
11/29/67-5/685/56-11/68
Qui Nhon
Ben Profeta Robles, ENC
Harold Edward Flinchum, BM2
Dennis Michael Hughes, QM3
6/6/67-
2/23/68-
Arnold E. Thiel, BM3
1/13/68-69
Division Commander - was from Buffalo, NY
Charles David Green, BM3
9/27/67-9/68
original DaNang OinC left the crew in late June/early July
5/17/68-
2/26/68-
Repair Division - ET Shack - ?was from New York?
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*deceased 3/19/2009 in Marinette, WI
Wallace Morgatrey, YN1
Johnnie B. Mays, EM2
?PCF 56?
*retired BMCM 12/1/88 - Stockbridge, GA
Chilhowie, VA
These craft, transferred by the US government in 1971 when Dr. George Borg Olivier was still Prime Minister, carried hull numbers P23 and P24 respectively and, while somewhat modified, maintained the look of the origin…
8/69-8/70
David L. Rohde, ENC
Thomas Stephen O'Keefe Jr, LTJG, OinC
Bill Miner
An Thoi
S. Boguta, RMSN
Craig Lynn Winchell, QM2
Qui Nhon
usnder322@aol.com
Charles David Smith, BM3/2
Robert Marshall Lake Jr, GMGSA
Baltimore, MD
Qui Nhon
Alvin William Musgrave Jr, LTJG, OinC
Qui Nhon
12/26/68-
was from Oregon
the 4th crewman (unknown)
Cam Ranh Bay
Robert J. Kajir
Roger Lee O'Diam, RD3
3/19/68-
Gregory J. Dunacusky
- was from Garden City, NY
DaNang
Richard Stuart Satter, LTJG/LT, OinC
8/11/67-
blackhills_58@yahoo.com
jjwyatt48@gmail.com
66-67
John Samuel Stoller, LTJG, OinC
Concord, CA
?PCF 63?
10/69 -2/70-?? was from Iowa
Gary H. Thompson
Douglas (Nmn) Martin, ENS, OinC
Robert Lawrence Johnson, LTJG, OinC
Charles Mitchell, BM3
12/26/68-
Michael John Trefren, YN2
Howard Edward Bilyeu, EN3
An Thoi/DaNang
6/12/66-5/3/67
rftessa@fresno.k12.ca.us
*retired EN1 10/13/78 - from Jacksonville, FL
was from Colorado
?66-67?
Anthony Wayne Teague, EN2
Rob(ert) (Nmn) Sturman, QM2
William A. Kennedy, BM3
Danny Leon Moro, RDSA/SN
Data Submission Guidelines
QM2 Richard Laverne Wissler Jr - KIA 10/2/69 - was from Willow Street,
John Wald Pugsley, LTJG, OinC
Jerrell David Scroggs, BMSN/3
Homan Fitzgrerald Hallock III, LTJG, OinC
- Mercer, PA
6/23/68-
- Queens Creek, AZ, ?PCF 100?
Qui Nhon
Dennis Patrick Mitchell, EN2
Richard Harper
gmdehaven@gmail.com
- Montrose, PA
e-mail Address
?-11-2/70-?
Marina, CA
12/23/66-
10/23/67-
- ?deceased 11/25/96 in Poulsbo, WA? ?PCF 10?
PCFs 100+, This page was last updated on:
Qui Nhon
William Edwin Borders II, RD3
Gailen Peter Rhinehart, GMG2
6/5/68-
Robert Alexander Finley, LTJG/LT, OinC
DaNang
An Thoi
Braddock, PA
4/28/66-4/23/67
Cat Lo
*deceased 11/29/01 in Milwaukee, WI
James Bailey Talley, QM2
was from Oregon
?PCF 6?
Crew 15A
Thomas Norm Borland, QM2
An Thoi
*retired RMC 9/8/77 - was from California
4/29/68-4/69
?Swiftee or Staff?
DaNang
BM3 Gerald Robert Horrell - KIA 1/5/69 - was from North Hollywood, CA
12/26/68-
Key Largo, FL
Curtis Joel Cramer, SN
- was from Nebraska - - called "Spider Web" (spider
William Lee Basco, GMG3
November
the 3rd crewman (unknown)
11/69-5/70
howton.pete@kingfishersys.com
Leland Charles Amack Jr, GMG3
Donald Luby Carter, QM2
Terry David Powers, GMG3
Qui Nhon
Belle Rose, LA
?Swiftee or Staff?
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