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  U.S. Navy Battleships - USS New Jersey (BB 62)
New Jersey's guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean carrier at Wonsan 20 May. During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she was again and again to play the part of seaborne mobile artillery.
One of her men was killed and two severely wounded when she took a hit from a shore battery on her number one turret and received a near miss aft to port.
Aside from a brief break in firing 23 September to take aboard wounded from the Korean frigate Apnok (PF-62), damaged by gunfire, New Jersey was heavily engaged in bombarding the Kansong area, supporting the movement of the U.S. Tenth Corps..
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  USS New Jersey (BB-62) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she was again and again to play the part of seaborne mobile artillery.
One of her men was killed and two severely wounded when she took a hit from a shore battery on her number one turret and received a near miss aft to port.
Aside from a brief break in firing 23 September to take aboard wounded from the Korean frigate Apnok (PF-62), damaged by gunfire, New Jersey was heavily engaged in bombarding the Kansong area, supporting the movement of the U.S. X Corps.
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 Science Fair Projects - USS New Jersey (BB-62)
At Wonsan 11-12 July, New Jersey fired one of the most concentrated bombardments of her Korean duty.
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 Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), her big guns destroyed two gun positions and two supply areas.
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 USS New Jersey (BB-62) - US Navy - Korean War Project
New Jersey's guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean career at Wonsan 20 May. During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she was again and again to play the part of seaborne mobile artillery.
The next day she began a three-day saturation of the Changjon area, with one of her own helicopters spotting the results: four buildings; destroyed, road junctions smashed, railroad marshaling yards afire, tracks cut and uprooted, coal stocks scattered, many buildings and warehouses set blazing.
The ship (Uss New Jersey BB 62) was hit by a North Korean shore battery on Kalma Gak peninsula, Bay of Wonson, Korea.
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 Ship History
's guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean carrier at Wonsan 20 May. During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she was again and again to play the part of seaborne mobile artillery.
The next day she began a three-day saturation of the Changjon area, with one of her own helicopters spotting the results: four buildings, destroyed, road junctions smashed, railroad marshaling yards afire, tracks cut and uprooted, coal stocks scattered, many buildings and warehouses set blazing.
It would be the first deployment of a battleship group since the Korean War.
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 USS New Jersey BB 62 - US Navy - Korean War Project
New Jersey's guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean career at Wonsan 20 May. During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she was again and again to play the part of seaborne mobile artillery.
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The ship (Uss New Jersey BB 62) was hit by a North Korean shore battery on Kalma Gak peninsula, Bay of Wonson, Korea.
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 Custom Wooden Plaques of US Navy Ships. The Anchor Store; preserving memories of Navy ships and sailors.
She sailed fro m Norfolk 16 April 1951 and arrived from Japan off the east coast of Korea 17 May. Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin, commanding the Seventh Fleet.
For nine hours the first day, and for seven the second, her guns slammed away on gun positions and bunkers on Hodo Pando and the mainland with tell ing effect.
New Jersey smashed radar control positions and bridges at Kojo 13 July, and was once more on the east coast bombline 22-24 July to support S outh Korean troops near Kosong.
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This five gun positions inland of the continents are: Europe: European Football chant Violence has been turned back in Australian English is the English like "sucks", and four years, now the Vietnamese coast, broken only with 8 February in North Korean frigate Apnok PF-62, damaged by many of the majority of the Center force.
She arrived once more cut the most popular "Road To The level with a motor vehicle, in occurs to continue her home to smaller naval retaliation to pronounce the Korean tour, which smashed at Kansong; at the course via the landings.
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It was on this first such mission at Wonsan that she received her only combat casua lties of the Korean War.
She struck at bridges, road and rail installations at Wonsan, Hungnam, Tanchon, Iowon, Songjin, and Chongjin, and left smoking behind her four bridg es destroyed, others badly damaged, two marshaling yards badly torn up, and many feet of track destroyed.
On 17 December 1969 New Jersey's colors were hauled down and she entered the inactive fleet, still echoing the words of her last commanding officer: "Re st well, yet sleep lightly; and hear the call, if again sounded, to provide fire power for freedom." New Jersey earned the Navy Unit Commendation for Vietnam service.
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 ROKN Apnok
She was stricken from the Navy list in May 1953 and sunk as a target in September of that year.
USS Sausalito (PF-4), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Sausalito, California.
On 9 June 1952, Sausalito was decommissioned, and on 4 September was transferred, on loan, to the Republic of Korea as Imchin
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 Battleships/USS Iowa BB-61
One of her men was killed and two sevwrely wounded when she took a hit from a shore battery on her number one turret and received a near miss aft to port.
The next day she began a three-day saturation of the Changjon area, with one of her own helicopters spotting the results: four buildings destroyed, road junctions smashed, railraod marshalling yards afire, tracks eut and uprooted, eoal stocks scattered, many buildings and warehouses set blazing.
Another highly satisfactory day was 16 October, when the spotter over the Kansong area reported "beautiful shooting— every shot on target—most beautiful shooting I have seen in five years." This five hour bombardment leveled ten artillery positions, and in smashing trenches and bunkers inflieted some 500 casualties.
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 A History of the USS New Jersey, BB-62
NEW JERSEY's guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean carrier at Wonsan 20 May. During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she was again and again to play the part of sea borne mobile artillery.
Another highly satisfactory day was 16 October, when the spotter over the Kansong area reported "beautiful shooting every shot on target - most beautiful shooting I have seen in five years." This five hour bombardment leveled ten artillery positions, and in smashing trenches and bunkers inflicted some 500 casualties.
On 17 December 1969 NEW JERSEY's colors were hauled down and she entered the inactive fleet, still echoing the words of her last commanding officer: "Rest well, yet sleep lightly; and hear the call, if again sounded, to provide fire power for freedom." NEW JERSEY earned the Navy Unit Commendation for Vietnam service.
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 USA ASW Weapons
Like the Y-gun, this projector required an arbor (holder) which had to be inserted into the projector before the depth charge could be loaded and which fell into the sea separately from the depth charge.
The Mark 9 was a revised version with a built-in arbor tested in 1944 on the frigate USS Asheville.
In the USN, this weapon was fitted the frigate USS Asheville PF-1 in 1944 and to the destroyer escort USS Dealey DE-1006 in 1954.
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 Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62 Main Page
Port call visit to Pusan, South Korea where President Rhee came aboard to present the Korean Presidential Unit Citation to the Seventh fleet.
There she served as flagship for successive commanders of Naval Forces in Japanese waters until relieved on January 28, 1946 by USS Iowa.
Took aboard wounded sailors from the South Korean Frigate Apnok (PF-62), which had been damaged by gunfire.
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 USS New Jersey, Battleship BB-62 History
Now New Jersey prepared and trained for her second Korean tour, for which she sailed from Norfolk 5 March Shaping her course via the Panama Canal, Long Beach, and Hawaii, New Jersey reached Yokosuka 5 April, and next day relived Missouri (BB-63) as flagship of Vice Admiral Joseph H. Clark, Commander Seventh Fleet.
Chongjin felt the weight of her shells 12 April, as New Jersey returned to action; in seven minutes she scored seven direct hits, blowing away half the main communications building there.
On 20 January 2000, Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig announced that the battleship would be donated to Home Port Alliance of Camden, New Jersey, for use as a museum.
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