Under Fire in Viet Nam

Dedicated To The Men And Women Who Served With Honor.

Hi, Good to see the McCormick have a web site to help keep the memories alive.

we no longer have a useable copy of the counter battery 8mm film. When I digitized the copy Phil Macauly sent me, it disintegrated as it went though my projector. I was able to capture most of the film in a digital format and used some of that when I edited the cbcb67.mpeg file. You may also want to look at the Counter Battery clip on the DVD page of my personal web site below. All the usable video I got from the 8mm film is in that clip. Of course, there was no sound so I added some audio I had of the Huntley Brinkley report. I also added the sound of the guns firing. I had audio I had recorded of Thunder's big guns and used that. I did not have audio of McCormick's guns, so I used audio I had made of the HMAS Perth firing for that. It was quite time-consuming to synchronize the muzzle-flash with the bang, but it was also fun.

If you haven't seen it, I have more info and pix of the shoot-out on my "War" page below. Good Luck with your site, Dexter Goad.

Dexter Goad, USS Newport News CA 148 '61-64 and '66-69
http://home.att.net/~dgoad/photos3.html
--"Thunder at War" Web Page--

http://home.att.net/~dgoad5/nndvd1.html
----26 Years of Thunder DVD Page----

The file is "Counter Battery, Counter Battery... The Newport News and McCormick come under fire from the N. Viets in 1967. Audio from Captain McCarty and the NBC Huntley Brinkley newscast. Video from 8mm film taken by Lt. Phil Arms and furnished by Lt. Phil Macauley.
:40min MPG File, (4.3MEG) Hi-Res with Sound"