- Subic Bay, Phillipines 1972
2520 hitsFrom AO-146 Shipmate Tom Sparkman. Tom took this photo while alongside NN in Subic, 1972.
- USS Newport News (CA-148) underway c1960
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USS Newport News (CA 148) underway 1960 - Oct.12,1967
5459 hitsThe heavy cruiser USS NEWPORT NEWS (CA-148) fires a three-gun salvo to port from her forward 8-inch/55 caliber rapid-fire gun turret during 'Operation Sea Dragon', Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, 12 October 1967
- T-2 center gun
6534 hitsAn exterior view of the gun in which the explosion occurred. The barrel has been blown completely clear of the turret and is connected only by the gun liner. 20 sailors were killed
- Shelling the coast of Vietnam June 1972...
6551 hitsShelling the coast of Vietnam June 1972
- USS Newport News (CA-148) transiting Kiel Canal 1962
8420 hitsThe U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) transiting the Kiel Canal, Germany, in 1962.
- USS Newport News CA-148 (1960's)
9028 hitsThe U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) underway in the 1960s.
- Kiel-Canal-Germany-1962
10222 hitsAs Second Fleet flagship, Newport News is shown transiting the Kiel Canal through a pastoral portion of West Germany in September 1962. The following month she was in the Caribbean as flagship of the U.S. quarantine force off Cuba. Photo by George Klos
- NN 1967 Vietnam
10938 hitsJohn A. Sharp watches for enemy shore battery gunfire as the USS NEWPORT NEWS (CA-148) blasts the enemy targets with her big 8-inch/55 caliber rapid-fire guns, 11 October 1967. Photographer, Journalist First Class Willard B. Bass, Jr.
- October 1967
11448 hitsSmoke Ring from the heavy cruiser USS NEWPORT NEWS (CA-148) fires her 8-inch/55 caliber guns toward North Vietnam during Operation Sea Dragon in 1967.
- USS Newport News CA-148 docked in Portsmouth Naval Yard 1963
13627 hitsUSS Newport News CA-148 (1963)
United States Navy heavy cruiser CA-148 USS Newport News berthed in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard in the summber of 1963. This photo was taken from a tourist boat which did trips around the harbour.
- Norfolk Naval Base,1969
13765 hitsPier 7 Norfolk Naval Base, 1969.
- NN T2 1972
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21050 hits - Puerto Rico, 1963
28873 hitsPort side view as seen from Fort San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico in January 1963 while participating in "Operation Springboard".
U.S. Navy photo. (Caption updated by LCDR Orlando Gallardo). Contributed
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