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Originally Posted by Olefin
If you look at Challenge Magazine 42 you get this tidbit in A Rock in Troubled Waters
Monitors: These are a variation on a Vietnam-era modification. LCM6s drawn from the amphibious base at Norfolk received boiler plate armor and whatever weaponry was handy.
To me that sounds like the Little Creek Amphibious Base wasnt hit by the nuke and has intact LCM6's there for MilGov to build these monitors
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Now that is helpful!
Playing with
NUKEMAP and using a 1 Mt. nuke, Little Creek and most of the Norfolk Naval Station are "safe" when I plant GZ on Norfolk Naval Shipyard. BUT, the Coast Guard Station and Craney Island fuel depot are within the thermal radiation radius.
So if you want to have Little Creek intact, it can work.
Alternatively, those wanting to have Little Creek unusable for whatever reason - fire, radiation, nuke GZ, etc. - could say the monitor conversions were done at Newport News Shipyard, or possibly Fort Eustis.