[lentulusgracchus]

On the other hand, I remember San Francisco annihilating a NVA armored regiment with one bombardment.

Must have been Newport News or St. Paul.....or maybe the Boston. When I was in, I knew a CWO2 who had stood weapons watches in the Boston the night she wiped out a VC or NVA battalion that got trapped on a beach near Qui Nhon or Quang Tri City. Killed over 600 of them.

San Francisco was retired and decommissioned at the end of WW2.

[Iris7]

When I was in, I knew a CWO2 who had stood weapons watches in the Boston the night she wiped out a VC or NVA battalion that got trapped on a beach near Qui Nhon or Quang Tri City. Killed over 600 of them.

Dang, memory problems here. Battalion to Regiment. Wrong ship. Couldn't remember the place either. I recollected the events being in 1972 invasion. St. Paul could well be correct.

Long time ago. Haven't thought about that story in almost forty years now.