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Photo # NH 98300:  USS Boston fires a salvo of eight-inch shells at enemy targets, 1969

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USS Boston (CAG-1, later CA-69) -- Activities and Views On Board, 1967-1970


This page features selected images of USS Boston's activities during 1967-1970, and miscellaneous views taken on board during those years.

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Boston (CAG-1, previously and later CA-69), 1943-1975.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 98297

    USS Boston (CAG-1)


    "Future Sailors are sworn in aboard the guided missile cruiser Boston by Captain Archer R. Gordon. Above them are the ship's eight-inch guns." (quoted from the original photo caption)
    The photograph was received by "All Hands" magazine on 8 February 1967.
    Location is probably Boston, Massachusetts.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 159KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98298

    USS Boston (CAG-1)


    "Providing ammunition to keep the big guns of the heavy cruiser USS Boston on the line is almost a daily task for the fast combat support ships like USS Sacramento. The Seventh Fleet cruiser keeps a vigil close offshore, to provide heavy gunfire in support of Marine operations inland. When not assisting the Marines with her eight and five-inch guns, Boston patrols on Sea Dragon destroying military targets along the coast of North Vietnam." (quoted from the original photo caption).
    Photographed by Chief Journalist Robert D. Moeser, USN. Photo is dated 25 June 1967.
    This image, taken from above Boston's port bow, shows her forward triple 8"/55 gun turrets, with eight-inch powder tanks and projectiles on deck nearby. Sacramento (AOE-1) is steaming alongside.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 161KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1134232

    USS Boston (CA-69)


    Line handlers on board the cruiser bring across a fuel hose from USS Camden (AOE-2), during underway replenishment operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, July 1968.
    Photographed by PH2 Gardner.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 154KB; 740 x 535 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1134232.

     
    Photo #: USN 1135456

    USS Boston (CA-69)


    The right and left guns of the cruiser's forward 8"/55 triple gun turret fire on North Vietnamese targets, during an Operation "Sea Dragon" bombardment in September 1968.
    Photographed by PHC Al Smith.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 515 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1135456.

     
    Photo #: NH 98299

    USS Boston (CA-69)


    The heavy cruiser's forward 8"/55 triple turrets fire a six-gun salvo at enemy positions below the Demilitarized Zone in the Republic of Vietnam, during her 1969 deployment to the Western Pacific.
    This photograph was received by "All Hands" magazine on 12 November 1969.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98300

    USS Boston (CA-69)


    Fires a salvo of eight-inch shells at enemy positions, while operating off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam during her 1969 deployment to the Western Pacific.
    Photographed from a helicopter flying nearby.
    This photograph was received by "All Hands" magazine on 12 November 1969.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98301

    USS Boston (CA-69)


    Crewmen lower the colors for the last time, during the cruiser's decommissioning ceremony at the South Boston Annex, Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, 5 May 1970.
    Photographed by PH3 George D. Lloyd, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 60KB; 510 x 765 pixels

     

    For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Boston (CAG-1, previously and later CA-69), 1943-1975.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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