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USS Newport News Web Site Home Page (Main Page for web site)
Listen to sound and see video of life aboard the USS Newport News, including recordings of our ship in Combat
This is where you will find information on your former shipmates.
Over 120 web pages covering the 26 year history of the USS Newport News
Links to other related web sites.
Information about the USS Newport News Mailing list, and USS Newport News Newsletter membership.
Web pages dedicated to those who lost their life while serving on the USS Newport News.
USS Newport News Museum and Memorial Foundation; dedicated to help keep the memory of our ship alive.
Information on our next USS NN Reunion and memories of past Reunions.
USS Newport News Ship's Store, Great Place to shop. Large selection of products.

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of the
USS NEWPORT NEWS / Heavy Cruiser  CA-148


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USS Newport News Pictures Section.

How to Navigate around in this Sections of the NN Cruise book CD.
Click on the Year or Place you want to go to in the navigation box at the top or 
bottom of each page.

When you are on a Picture Page, you can click on the small "Thumb Nail" pictures
to see the full sized picture, Then click on your browser's back arrow to return to
the index page you started from.

Helpful Hint: DON'T just look at the pictures of the ship for the years you served. 
If that is all you look at, you are going to miss a LOT of great memories and pictures!!!

Two Great Warships Meet In the Tonkin Gulf 

The USS Newport News CA-148 and the USS New Jersey BB-62 meet up in the Tonkin Gulf January 1969 and perform a highline operation.


Pictures of the New Jersey taken by Donald Hammer from the Newport News and pictures of the Newport News taken by Bob Dingman from the New Jersey.


Added Dec. 2011 - Pictures of the USS Newport News taken from the USS New Jersey by Jim Gregg, MM2, USS New Jersey BB62, Vietnam 68-69


Click on the double thumbnail below to see the rendezvous of these two great ships.
 

The Death of a Fine Lady. 

This section shows pictures contributed by Chris Vallery and Andrew Stokey of the scrapping of our ship.  A sad time in the history of "Thunder".  

These pictures span from around June, 1993 
to around September 1994.