Vietnam
Hopewell was repeatedly deployed from the West Coast to Vietnam from 1960 into 1967 in defense of the republic. In February 1963 she rescued a crewman from a downed A-3B of Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in the South China Sea. During a 3-month cruise, which ended in August, Hopewell fired 2,276 rounds, destroyed 112 structures, and silenced a Viet Cong mortar attack upon ground forces. For the remainder of 1966, she acted as school ship in gunnery and ASW off the West Coast.
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Famous quotes containing the word vietnam:
“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
—Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)
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—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.”
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