Dec 5, 2025 · The annual springtime trip down the Yangtze for overhaul at Shanghai was timed to coincide with rising water through the Three Gorges. A sailor reaching the entertainments of …

Oct 6, 2019 · Yangtze Patrol river gunboats USS Villalobos and Palos and other reinforcement war ships at Hankow, China, in January 1927. Excerpt from “The Sand Pebbles”-

Oct 29, 2012 · Thought since the Expeditionary Medal thread was so successful, I'd start one on the Yangtze service Medal. Same rules, copy and paste. These are the ones I found scattered …

Aug 23, 2009 · To commemorate the services performed by the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps during the operations in the valley of the Yangtze River, China, in 1926 and …

Mar 23, 2014 · Here is the USS Villalobos toward the end of her career on the Yangtze. Ironically, it was supposedly tales from the Villalobos pre –WWI days that inspired Richard McKenna to …

Jan 17, 2023 · Panay is the only one of "the new six" Yangtze Patrol gunboats available in a kit. Dennis says the resin kit with photo etch parts by Iron Shipwright that will yield a 12" model …

May 14, 2010 · No medal rolls currently exist for the USMC Expeditionary, 2nd Nicaraguan and Yangtze. All of the Army campaign medal rosters were published by Gleim's Planchet Press. …

Oct 29, 2012 · Yangtze medal No. 184 engraved to Lt. G.M. Boyes and U.S.S. Hart. Earlier he was also Naval Aviator # 1575 Gordon McCausland Boyes , Pensacola Oct 9, 1918 Adam …

Mar 21, 2017 · My Yangtze is a period replacement with no number but engraved with Outler's name, USS Luzon and the date. I have two scrapbooks and Outler's Yangtze Patrol book plus …

Dec 16, 2024 · Prior to Pearl Harbor, he commanded the Yangtze Patrol. One of my favorite Stirling quotes from his autobiography is, "All my life I have been called a stormy petrel. I have …