swift boat

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Nov 19 21:06:11 UTC 2004


Earliest use??

>From _All Hands_ (Bureau of Naval Personnel magazine), Jan 1966, p. 29
(caption of photo):

" "SWIFT BOAT" is name given to the new PCF (patrol craft, fast) 50-footers
which arrived in Vietnam recently as part of the Coastal Surveillance
Force."



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