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The ship was subjected to return fire on several occasions, but each time countered enemy batteries. On 19 December 1967, Newport News exchanged fire with 20–28 separate shore batteries, simultaneously, off the coast of North Vietnam. During this engagement, over 300 enemy rounds bracketed the cruiser's position, but she suffered no direct hits.
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. As he prepared to fire a LAW rocket at a group of 70 to 75 North Vietnamese troops attacking his position, he was severely wounded by a round through his head. [4]
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
The Newport Daily News caught up with Donnelly at the department’s headquarters on Marlborough Street. While giving a tour of the 90-year-old building, he explained how Fire Station One is ...
The smell of smoke interrupted what was a celebration of the end of the school year among a group of friends from Newport News’ B.C. Charles Elementary, according to the father of one of the ...
Newport News (/ ˌ n uː p ɔːr t-,-p ər t-/) [7] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States.At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [6] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States.
Newport News Emergency Communications Center dispatchers Flora Soul and Katy Thomason immediately called for a change of tactics — hastening a firetruck to get en route, to make it to the scene ...
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