Thế nhưng các sách mà bạn dẫn, có nói đến trận pháo hạm này từng bị pháo 130ly của Đại đội 1 Tiểu đoàn 21 Trung đoàn 204 pháo binh "tẩn" bị thương tại bờ biển Quảng Bình năm 1968, khiến nó phải kéo về Cảng Subic để sửa chữa không ?
Bị thương hay không thì chưa rõ nhưng vụ kéo về Subic thì tôi hơi nghi. Chả thấy tụi Mỹ chép gì cả.
http://www.ussnewjersey.org/general/ship_move1.htmVIET NAM
New Jersey's third career began on 6 April 1968 when she was recommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Captain J. Edward Snyder in command. Fitted with improved electronics and a helicopter landing pad and with her 40-millimeter battery removed, she was tailored for use as a heavy bombardment ship. Her 16-inch guns, it was expected, would reach targets in Vietnam inaccessible to smaller naval guns and, in foul weather, safe from aerial attack.
New Jersey, now the world's only active battleship, departed Philadelphia on 16 May, calling at Norfolk and transiting the Panama Canal before arriving at her new home port of Long Beach, California, on 11 June. Further training off Southern California followed. On 24 July, New Jersey received 16-inch shells and powder tanks from Mount Katmai (AE-16) by conventional highline transfer and by helicopter lift, the first time heavy battleship ammunition had been transferred by helicopter at sea.
Departing Long Beach on 3 September, New Jersey touched at Pearl Harbor and Subic Bay before sailing on 25 September for her first tour of gunfire support duty along the Vietnamese coast. Near the 17th Parallel on 30 September, the dreadnought fired her first shots in battle in over sixteen years. Firing against Communist targets in and near the so-called Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), her big guns destroyed two gun positions and two supply areas. She fired against targets north of the DMZ the following day, rescuing the crew of a spotting plane forced down at sea by antiaircraft fire.
The next six months fell into a steady pace of bombardment and fire support missions along the Vietnamese coast, broken only by brief visits to Subic Bay and replenishment operations at sea. In her first two months on the gun line, New Jersey directed nearly ten thousand rounds of ammunition at Communist targets; over 3,000 of these shells were 16-inch projectiles.
Her first Vietnam combat tour completed, New Jersey departed Subic Bay on 3 April 1969 for Japan. She arrived at Yokosuka for a two-day visit, sailing for the United States on 9 April.
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