- NN-1972-Oct-2nd
59023 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
41049 hitsWITH THE RAN IN SE ASIA: Heavy Cruiser USS NEWPORT NEWS CA-148 with HMAS PERTH off Vietnam, Oct. 1967 - Bob Westthorp.
- Empty 8" Brass
31045 hitsA typical Day on the Gun Line 1972. Raining death with "Thunder"
- Fallen '20'
5807 hits"Lest We Forget"
- James Friedman - OS1, USN (Ret)
2166 hitsJames Friedman - OS1, USN (Ret) | photo taken at the 2007 reunion in Charleston, SC
- operation "lions-den" August 27, 1972
1419389 hitsOperation 'Lions Den' : August 27, 1972 - Credit for that image goes to NN shipmate Bob Chase
- Norfolk Naval Base,1969
13728 hitsPier 7 Norfolk Naval Base, 1969.
- October 1967
11414 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.
- Starboard bow view while at anchor in the Caribbean, June 1949. Crew at quarters.
6607 hitsStarboard bow view of the USS Newport News (CA-148) while at anchor in the Caribbean, June 1949. Crew at quarters.
- RIP
3791 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 - William 'Bill' Gowacki
2090 hitsWilliam 'Bill' Gowacki | NN crew member Jan. 1973 - June. 1975 | 2nd Div. Main Battery T-3
- NN LOGO-1
1946 hitsFeel free to use this image as you see fit
- Kiel-Canal-Germany-1962
10203 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
- 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
- vertrep-1972
57662 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)