Today we’re going to pick up where we started last Friday with Part II of what will be a four part series on what continues to be both internally and externally what seems to be an intentionally forgotten part of the US Navy’s history - the surface force combat experience in the Vietnam War.
That isn’t an exaggeration. Not to pick on the good VADM Cooper, this oversight is gobsmackingly common. He is just the most senior and recent example.
So, let’s dive in a year your humble blogg’r was still a toddler that we first looked at in 2013.
Captain Lindsey S. McCarty, USN giving a hot wash-up to his crew after USS Newport News (CA-148) and USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) engaged shore batteries in North Vietnam 19 December 1967.
If you go to the YouTube page, you can find some comments from former crew members and their families.
gotta agree, the whole World War II comment blew my mind. Argument for more PME! Looking forward to this series.
300 rounds incoming. 732 rounds sent back, plus many 500 lbs bombs. The bigger pucker factor and sense of regret had to be ashore.