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English: The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) firing on targets in Vietnam at night, circa in 1967. Newport News was deployed to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 5 September 1967 to 13 May 1968.
On 27 August 1972, Newport News, USS Providence, USS Robison and USS Rowan made a night raid into Haiphong Harbor shelling the port area from a distance of 2 miles (3.2 km). After leaving the harbor two Vietnam People's Navy torpedo boats engaged the ships 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Haiphong with one sunk by the Newport News and the other ...
Thornton, Norris and the three Vietnamese were alone and nearly surrounded. Near dawn, Norris ordered the group to extract towards the beach, and they leap-frogged towards the surf. Norris was able to contact the cruiser USS Newport News and requested that they fire for effect to cover their withdrawal. Norris covered the group's rearward movement.
USS Newport News (AK-3), was a German cargo ship named Odenwald, taken over by the US Navy during World War I; USS Newport News (CA-148), was a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser in service from 1948 to 1978; USS Newport News (SSN-750), is a Los Angeles-class submarine commissioned in 1989 and currently in active service
America being converted to USS West Point in Norfolk. The carrier USS Hornet can be seen behind her. America was moored at Norfolk, Virginia, and acquired by the Navy on 1 June 1941 to be used as a troop transport. [4] The ship was renamed the USS West Point (AP-23), [4] the second U.S. Navy ship of the name.
USS Liberty (AGTR-5), for those killed in the 1967 USS Liberty incident; USS Scorpion (SSN-589), lost with all hands in 1968; USS Newport News (CA-148), for crew lost in a 1972 misfire; USS Nimitz (CVN-68), for the crew lost in the 1981 flight deck crash; USS Iowa (BB-61), for the crew lost in the 1989 turret explosion
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List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1968 Ship State Description USS Abercrombie United States Navy The decommissioned John C. Butler-class destroyer escort was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, by the ships and aircraft of the USS Bon Homme Richard carrier battle group ( United States Navy).