[Billthedrill]

USS Long Beach was originally all-missile; she got a couple of open-mount five-inchers added after a failed SHOOTEX for President Kennedy.

Yep. She was the only nuclear cruiser as well. The Chicago and the Albany also got port-and-starboard open 5-inch mounts. It was my first duty station on Chicago. Those steel seats were like ice cubes at extended GQs and they didn't have seat belts (and I weighed about 120 pounds at the time - and oh, my, that water looked cold). I got a real thrill when I read "USS Wasp" on the mount. That thing had been places.

[Poohbah]

Which Wasp? CV-7?

[hchutch]

Bainbridge, Truxtun, California, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas also were CGNs.