Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted photo by Clay Farrington. At the Hampton Marina Hotel in downtown Hampton, Virginia, HRNM educator AJ Orlikoff talks with retired CWO3 Ralph J. Fries, who deployed to Vietnam in 1964, 1967-1968, and again in 1973, about his experiences. Fries is attending the reunion of the 458th Transportation Company “Sea Tigers,” an Army unit, yet Navy veterans who also utilized the river......
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. HRNM educator AJ Orlikoff talks with Vietnam veterans who have gathered for the 458th Transportation Company “Sea Tigers” reunion 2019 Hampton Virginia, distributing commemorative lapel pins to the Soldiers of the 458th as well as Sailors who served with the Navy’s Task Force 116. (US Navy Photo by Clay Farrington/Released)....
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. HRNM educator AJ Orlikoff thanks Robert C. Bogison after he offered to donate a copy of his memoir of his experiences in Vietnam, Up Close and Personal: In-Country, Chieu Hoi, Vietnam, 1969-1970, to the museum’s library. (US Navy Photo by Clay Farrington/Released)....
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. HRNM educator AJ Orlikoff stands with Robert C. Bogison (left) after he offered to donate a copy of his memoir of his experiences in Vietnam, Up Close and Personal: In-Country, Chieu Hoi, Vietnam, 1969-1970, to the museum’s library. Standing to the right is the book’s editor, retired navy commander Eric Berryman. Both had gathered for the 458th......
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. Aboard PBR 721, one of two privately-owned restored river patrol boats (PBRs) that had arrived for the reunion of the 458th Transportation Company “Sea Tigers” in Hampton, Virginia, Hampton Roads Naval Museum (HRNM) educator AJ Orlikoff talks with reunion attendee Jim Tarbox, who was deployed to Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 as an Army sergeant with the......
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. Aboard PBR 721 in the Hampton River, former Army Specialist John Patrick, who served aboard an river patrol boat (PBR) for a year and a half in Vietnam while a part of the 458th Transportation Company, keeps a lookout for other traffic on the river as HRNM educator AJ Orlikoff looks on. (US Navy Photo by Clay Farrington/Released)....
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. Aboard PBR 721 in the Hampton River, Vietnam veteran Tom Wonsiewicz, who served aboard an Army-run river patrol boat (PBR) while a part of the 458th Transportation Company from 1969 to 1970, keeps a lookout for other traffic on the river while PBR owner Dennis A. Ambruso, who served with the Navy in Vietnam, steers his 31-foot Mk II boat back to the Hampton......
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 09.12.2019
Submitted Photo by Clay Farrington. Aboard PBR 721 in the Hampton River, former Army specialist John Patrick, who served in Vietnam for a year and a half aboard a river patrol boat (PBR) while a part of the Army’s 458th Transportation Company, waves at a passing sailboat along with Hampton Roads Naval Museum (HRNM) educator AJ Orlikoff. (US Navy Photo by Clay Farrington/Released)....
