- vertrep-1972
57660 hitsOne of USS Niagara Falls (AFS 3) helos vertreping USS Newport News (CA 148) in Aug/Sept 1972. Photo by CDR Al Cusick USN Ret. (Niagara Falls Gunnery as well as Flight Deck Officer)
- T-2 center gun
6514 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...
6526 hitsShelling the coast of Vietnam June 1972
- RIP
3790 hitscombat:
SA Herman Carol Acker • SN Jack Stephen Bergman Jr. • BM3 William Clark Jr. • GMG3 Charles Wayne Clinard • SA Ronald Paul Daley • SR Raymond Rance Davis • SN Terry Wayne Deal SN Joseph Grisafi • SA Wm. Harrison III • GMG2 Tommy Hawker • SA Robert Kikkert • SN Edward McEleney Jr. • SA Robert Moore • SA Stanley Pilot Jr. • SN Ralph Robinson
GMG1 Wesley Rose • SA Richy Rucker • SA Jeffery Scheller • SN David Lee Scott • SA Richard Tessman
Non-combat deaths:
Joseph V. Balzano • Stephen M. Brumfield • James J. Sansone - operation "lions-den" August 27, 1972
1419386 hitsOperation 'Lions Den' : August 27, 1972 - Credit for that image goes to NN shipmate Bob Chase
- October 1967
11412 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.
- NNmemFB2
2092 hitsCreated by WCGowacki. Ships Award Ribbons added by Master Chief FT Dexter Goad! Thanks Chief!
- NN-1972-Oct-2nd
59021 hitsPicture was taken from the USS Bainbridge DLGN-25 on October 2nd as we past and rendered honors to the USS Newport News (CA-148)
- NN seen from the Perth - 1967 Vietnam
41047 hitsWITH THE RAN IN SE ASIA: Heavy Cruiser USS NEWPORT NEWS CA-148 with HMAS PERTH off Vietnam, Oct. 1967 - Bob Westthorp.
- James Friedman - OS1, USN (Ret)
2165 hitsJames Friedman - OS1, USN (Ret) | photo taken at the 2007 reunion in Charleston, SC
- Fallen '20'
5807 hits"Lest We Forget"
- Empty 8" Brass
31042 hitsA typical Day on the Gun Line 1972. Raining death with "Thunder"
- chuck-z
15598 hitsChuck Z.