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To: xone
USS Long Beach? USN gun cruiser in Vietnam

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

You're thinking of the USS Newport News, the last all-gun cruiser in the US Navy.

92 posted on 11/18/2004 9:10:42 AM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Poohbah

I knew it was one of those "squid" towns. Thanks


94 posted on 11/18/2004 9:15:49 AM PST by xone
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To: Poohbah
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.

119 posted on 11/18/2004 10:23:20 AM PST by Billthedrill
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