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  USS New Jersey (BB-62) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Jersey's final contribution to the conquest of the Marianas was in strikes on Guam and the Palaus from which she sailed for Pearl Harbor, arriving 9 August.
New Jersey sailed to the aid of troops of the Republic of Korea once more 17 August, returning to the Kansong area where for four days she provided harassing fire by night, and broke up counterattacks by day, inflicting a heavy toll on enemy troops.
New Jersey added her muscle to a major air and surface strike on Wonsan 1 May, as 7th Fleet planes both attacked the enemy and spotted for the battleship.
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 USS New Jersey (BB-62) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Jersey was directly engaged in the conquest of (The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands) Okinawa from 14 March until 16 April.
New Jersey's guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean career at (Click link for more info and facts about Wonsan) 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.
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 (A republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948) South Korean troops near Kosong.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_new_jersey_(bb-62)4.htm   (4666 words)

  
 New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Jersey was a crucial swing state in the elections of 1960, 1968, and 1992.
As of 2004, the population of New Jersey was estimated to be 8,698,879.
New Jersey is broken up into 21 counties, most of which are vestiges of the colonial area, and the remainder partitioned from existing counties in the 1800s.
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 USS New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first New Jersey (BB-16) was a battleship commissioned in 1906, decommissioned in 1920, and sunk in 1923 in bombing tests.
The second New Jersey (BB-62) was a battleship commissioned in 1943, seeing much service in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War.
It is presently a tourist attraction in Camden, New Jersey.
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 Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62 Main Page
USS New Jersey opens as a museum on the Delaware River, just a few miles from where she was first commissioned in 1943.
The USS New Jersey completed her Final Voyage home from Bremerton, Washington to the former Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard, arriving there appropriately enough, on Veteran's Day 1999.  The Navy's decision of where to permanently berth the Battleship was announced on January 20, 2000, and the winner was...
New Jersey Resident there are several easy ways you can help and there are also other ways everyone can help.  I myself belong to the the Home Port Alliance, they are the organization that currently has control of the ship and have opened her as a Museum on the Delaware River.
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 New York Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Four of New York City's five boroughs are on the three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island, Staten Island, and Long Island.
Much of the region's ecosystem is similar to the larger New Jersey Pinelands (also called "Pine barrens") to the south and southwest of NY City, along with Cape Cod's pine barrens.
New York is home to more of America's Jews (25% of their national total), Muslims (24%), Taoists (26%), and Greek Orthodox (17%) than any other state.
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 DANFS: USS New Jersey (BB-62)
New Jersey screened the carriers from enemy attack as their aircraft flew strikes against Kwajalein and Eniwetok 29 January-2 February, softening up the latter for its invasion and supporting the troops who landed 31 January.
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.
New Jersey added her muscle to a major air and surface strike on Wonsan 1 May, as Seventh Fleet planes both attacked the enemy and spotted for the battleship.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/BB/bb62.html   (4222 words)

  
 Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - USS New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
USS New Jersey participated in nearly all of the Western Pacific campaigns from her arrival in the theater in January 1944 until the end of WW II.
New Jersey was directly engaged in the conquest of Okinawa in early 1945.
New Jersey made deployments to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean between 1955 and her decommissioning at Bayonne on 21 August 1957.
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 Battleship New Jersey Official Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Among the most notable battleships in the Navy's history is the USS New Jersey.
Charles Edison, wife of the Governor of New Jersey and daughter-in-law of the famous inventor Thomas Edison.
The New Jersey was recommissioned in the spring of 1968 and was the only battleship then on active duty in any Navy.
www.battleshipnewjersey.org /index.cfm?fa=facts   (651 words)

  
 USS New Jersey BB 62 - US Navy - Korean War Project
Attention former BB-62 crewmen, the Battleship New Jersey was opened to the public as a museum on October 15, 2001 on the Delaware River in Camden, NJ.
Comments: The Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station (BNJARS) is restoring the radio room on the New Jersey in preparation for its opening as a museum/memorial in Camden, NJ (across the river from Philadelphia).
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.
www.kwp.org /html/units/navy/uss_newjersey.htm   (3192 words)

  
 U.S. Navy Battleships - USS New Jersey (BB 16)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Jersey's initial training in Atlantic and Caribbean waters was highlighted by her review by President Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay during September 1906, and by her presence at Havana, Cuba, from 21 September through 13 October to protect American lives and property threatened by the Cuban Insurrection.
New Jersey sailed from Vera Cruz 13 August, observed and reported on troubled conditions in Santo Domingo and Haiti, and reached Hampton Roads 9 October 1914.
New Jersey was decommissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard 6 August 1920, and was sunk off Cape Hatteras 5 September 1923 in Army bomb tests conducted by Brig.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/newjersey/bb16-nj.html   (748 words)

  
 U.S. Navy Battleships - USS New Jersey (BB 62)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Jersey rejoined her fast carriers near San Bernadino 27 October 1944 for strikes on central and southern Luzon.
New Jersey, now the world's only active battleship, departed Philadelphia 16 May, calling at Norfolk and transiting the Panama Canal before arriving at her new home port of Long Beach, Calif., 11 June.
New Jersey was recommissioned at Long Beach, Calif., on 28 December 1982.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/newjersey/bb62-nj.html   (4566 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS New Jersey, a 45,000-ton Iowa class battleship, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
New Jersey went to the Pacific in early 1944 and conducted her first combat operations in support of the Marshalls invasion.
New Jersey continued her Pacific combat operations into 1945, supporting the invasions of Iwo Jima and the Ryukyus.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-n/bb62.htm   (892 words)

  
 Home Page
USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) opened, as a museum October 15, 2001.
The information herein is © 2000 to The USS NEW JERSEY Veteran's INC., all rights reserved or the sources are listed respectively.
This web-site designed by John Schultz, a fellow battleship sailor from the USS IOWA(BB-61) and developed by Ed Campbell, a member of USS New Jersey Veterans, Inc.
www.ussnewjersey.org   (269 words)

  
 The USS New Jersey, Battleship of Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On April 6 1968, The USS New Jersey BB-62 was taken off the inactive duty list and put under Captin J. Edward Snyder in comand.
During this time the New Jersey was the only Battleship to be in active service around the globe.
The New Jersey arrived near the 17th parrallel for its gunfire support duty along the Vietnam coast on the 30th of September.
www.fatherryan.org /navyvietnam/battleship.html   (153 words)

  
 USS New Jersey (BB 62)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Seen here turning to starboard with sistership USS New Jersey (wearing overall navy blue measure 21 camouflage) in the background.
Two quad 40mm Bofors mounts are visible with USS New Jersey in the background.
In the background is another Essex class carrier, USS Hancock (CV 19).
battleships.freewebsitehosting.com /NJersey.html   (659 words)

  
 Battleship USS New Jersey
The Courier-Post has covered the New Jersey since before it was built.
• Radio communication between the USS New Jersey and the USS Wisconsin on June 5, 2004
• Battleship USS New Jersey: From Birth to Berth
www.southjerseynews.com /battleship   (126 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS NEW JERSEY (BB-16)
USS New Jersey, a 14,948-ton Virginia class battleship, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts.
Now painted grey and outfitted with the new "cage" masts, she operated in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean.
USS New Jersey was decommissioned in August 1920.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-n/bb16.htm   (423 words)

  
 Tamiya 1/350 USS New Jersey (Modern)
The USS New Jersey (BB-62) was one of the four Iowa-class battleships launched by the US during the last few years of WWII.
These were the most powerful battleships built by the US and the New Jersey was chosen by Bull Halsey to be his flagship.
The USS New Jersey is currently docked in Camden, New Jersey and is undergoing refurbishment by volunteers to prepare the ship as a floating museum.
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 USS New Jersey
It pained me to watch the USS New Jersey as she was dragged through the Miraflores locks.
Yesterday was such a contrast to that bright clear day in 1968, when I stood on the boat ramp a mile north of Gatun and watched BB-62 coming down for her transit on her way to Viet Nam.
As the New Jersey slipped from the third lock into Gatun Lake, I noticed that in her passage through Gatun, she had been accompanied by a ship with a VOLKSWAGEN VW on its fl funnel.
www.czbrats.com /CuPA/Jimpics/ussnj.htm   (1065 words)

  
 Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society
The purpose of our Society is to assist and support the battleship New Jersey in the territorial waters of the State of New Jersey.
USS New Jersey (BB-62) is one of the four battleships of the
Iowa class, the largest, fastest, most powerful, and last battleships the US ever built, and among the biggest battleships ever.
www.bb62museum.org   (222 words)

  
 The USS New Jersey    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The USS New Jersey completed her Final Voyage home from Bremerton, Washington to the former Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard, arriving there appropriately enough, on Veteran's Day 1999.
The Navy's decision to permanently berth the Battleship in Camden was announced on January 20, 2000.
The Battleship New Jersey, our Nation's most decorated battleship, is now a floating museum on the Delaware River, along the Camden Waterfront across from Center City Philadelphia.
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 3D max USS New Jersey
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It has been featured in a Gannett Inc. Newspaper company the Courier-Post in one of the September 2003 Brainstorming issues.
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 uss new jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Battleship Veterans - USS NEW JERSEY
New Jersey sailed from Norfolk 16 April 1951 and arrived off the east coast of Korea 17 May. Upon arrival she hoisted Seventh Fleet's flag which she retained for the next six months.
Her guns opened the first shore bombardment of her Korean career at Wonsan 20 May 1951.
In her two Korean tours, it was her first mission at Wonsan where New Jersey received her only combat casualties of the Korean war.
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 USS New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Battleship USS New Jersey: From Birth to Berth
We are proud to present a beautiful hard-bound commemorative book celebrating the remarkable history of the battleship USS New Jersey.
It differs from other books on the battleship in that it chronicles the most recent battle -- bringing the New Jersey home as a floating museum.
shop.courierpostonline.com /store/battleshipbook.html   (208 words)

  
 Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station
It is open to any interested individual, especially local veterans who served on the USS New Jersey or other battleships.
Several members have changed e-mail address, but have not provided BNJARS with their new address.
If you have changed your e-mail this year, please forward your new address to the list administrator.
www.nj2bb.org   (291 words)

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