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Casualty Info
Home Town Reserve, LA
Last Address Reserve, LA
Casualty Date Oct 01, 1972
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Misadventure
Location Vietnam, North (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Pearlington Cemetery - Pearlington, Mississippi
Vietnam War/Vietnam Cease-fire Campaign (72-73)/Battle of Haiphong Harbor
From Month/Year
May / 1972
To Month/Year
May / 1972
Description May 10 was a day of spectaculars for the new Navy.
Three cruisers, led by the Newport News with her eight-inch guns, and two destroyers pulled close to North Vietnamese coast and hit targets only four miles from Haiphong in what the Navy called "the first multi-cruiser gunfire action since World War II."
Navy publicists began calling the Newport News "the fastest gun in the West" and the Oklahoma City "the gray ghost of the Vietnam Coast."