Many people are only familiar with half of that story. The OTHER half, is that the battleship that was part of that battlegroup opened up with her 16 inch guns and silenced the artilary in a minute or so. It was a bait and switch, which caused many Hezzies to get their asses blown up.
Yeah, but the version I heard was that there was a fully-loaded air group on the flight deck--if the last shell had come down 200 yards closer to the beach, guess what the lead on the four news networks would've been that night?