STORIES ABOUT VANCE

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How USS Vance DE 387 Got Her name
COMBARPAC aka NAX5  11/18/19 -- by Chuck Smith new information on the Dew Line
Raisin Jack in the Forward Engineroom  13/02/2002
Escort Squadron 5  history of Haverfield with mention of Cortron 5  01/15/2001
Watch a DER 387 RC model being built  by Steve Buchanan Started 01/14/2001
A stateside recruit  Ozzie 2006
Ozzie Henry Remembers Vance in 1943  11/27/2000
Drew Pearson Says from 1967  03/05/2000
The Coast Guard And The North Atlantic Campaign  03/05/2000
The DEW Line  Distant Early Warning System
The Rescue  This is a true story.
Operation Market Time  Coastal Patrol, Vietnam
Pacific Barrier, US Navy's role. E-mail facts from Luke 05/08/99
  Pacific Barrier September, 1958 Extracted from the Willy Victor Page 05/09/99
  Chapter 3: 1965-1968 Naval Historical Center 05/09/99
How U-234 Brought Its Deadly Secret Cargo to New Hampshire.   05/15/99
The Forgotten Years 1952-1954   A letter from James Kelly Capt. USCG Ret. 06/06/99
  Time, December 1, 1967 The Navy page 20 06/12/99
Skipper of the U-873...  This is the sub Vance got. linked to a hand written note. 06/16/99
Bad Judgment, Lack of Integrity  The Navy said Friday that.... 06/25/99
DEs fought against Japanese warships from the back of a picture 06/25/99
Escort Divisions  A list of five divisions 06/25/99
A letter from: WM. Jack Jenkins  06/25/99
Destroyers Transit Canal On Way To US  11/08/99
USS Vance DE-387 War diary for the month of May 1945  11/08/99
Coast Guardsman Finds Kin on U-Boat  11/08/99
U-Boat Spent Day In U.S. Harbor  11/08/99
Four Rhode Island Coast Guardsmen took part  11/08/99
Billet Slip  Explains duties of each sailor 11/08/99

  Updated 12/17/99
This section contains stories which are mentioned in the Arnheiter Affair by Neil Sheehan, published by Random House, Inc., 1971.
This section also contains entries from men who served under or with Arnheiter over the years which are mentioned in the book.

The original locations of stories found on this site.

What is a Swift Boat's capacity  (The Rescue) Inactive
Distant Early Warning System  Inactive
The Willy Victor Page  Inactive
Naval Historical Center
The Vance Mutiny: Fact Mirrors Fiction  did fact emulate fiction? 01/12/2001

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