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Vietnam Brown-Water Navy Zippos
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The “Brown-Water" Navy combined Coastal and Riverine Operations to stop the enemy's re-supply of arms from Cambodia by sea and river. It involved destroyers, escorts and minesweepers along with Cost Guard cutters and low draft boats and PBR's patrolling the Mekong Delta. They averaged 85 firefights per month and almost one third of the sailors were killed or wounded. The Riverene Operations were Vietnamized in 1970. |
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1962 Zippo engraved "United
States Navy Viet Nam - River
Assault Squadron 13". It
has a map of Vietnam on the
back. |
The River Assault Flotilla
One (RivFlotOne) operated
ships for providing command
facilities and
communications, resupply,
repairs, housing and food
for both Army and Navy
personnel of the Joint
Mobile Riverine Force. This
1967 Zippo has also been
engraved with a US Navy logo
and the name of J. O'Brien
on the reverse. |
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1967 Zippo. The lid is engraved
with "HA(L)-3" (Helicopter Attack
(Light) Squadron - 3) with
responsibility for providing Task
Force 116 with aerial fire support,
observation , and medical
evacuation). The reverse is
engraved "Seawolves" and
"John R. Weil ADJ-3 999-27-82". |
A 1968 River Section 512
factory-engraved Zippo. |
This 1968 River Division 535 Zippo
has had the boat number, 731
engraved. |
This 1968 Zippo
is for Coastal Division 12 which
operated "Swift" boats, or PCF's,
from DaNang. |
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Sea Float was a floating
naval support base which
supported PBR's and other
sea as well as aircraft. It
was turned over to the South
Vietnamese Navy and renamed
Tran Hung
Dao III. The Zippo is from
1969. |
1969 Zippo with the emblem
of the US Navy Delta
Dragons "The Best". The
reverse is engraved with
a PBR and "River Div 531
Vietnam." |
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1969 Zippo for River
Division 531 |
USS Hunterdon was an LST
(Landing Ship Tank) that
supported the PBRs in "Game
Warden", the name given to
the operation to stop the
flow
of communist supplies along
the coast of South Vietnam.
Its history can be found
HERE.
The Zippo is dated 1969. |
Vulcan brand lighter marked
"Cambodia" and an attached
badge for USS Hunterdon
County Game Warden. The
back reads "Vietnam - AGP
838 USS Hunterdon County
Game Warden" and has a
line drawing of the ship. |
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1970 Zippo with
factory-engraved image of a
PBR
and logo of the River Patrol
Group 54, the command of
which was turned over to the
Vietnamese Navy in 1970.
The reverse reads "Naval
Advisory Group - River
Patrol Group 54
Viet-Nam 1970". |
This 1970 Zippo has a PBR
for River Division 554 on
one side and for Section 511
on the other. The
authenticity of the
engraving is questionable |
This two-sided 1969 Zippo
is for River Division 553. |
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1970 Zippo that reads "River
Assault Division 151,
Monitor
6 Viet Nam 1970" with the image of a monitor, or river gun boat. |
Helatkltron-3, or
"Helicopter Attack (Light)
Squadron
Three" were known as
the"Seawolves" which
supported PBR's by Air.
The Zippo is dated 1970. |
The "Checkmate" logo is for
Coastal Squadron Three, a
squadron of Gun Boats
established at Cam Ranh
Bay in 1968. The Zippo is
dated 1970, a year after the
squadron was moved to
San Diego. |
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