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USS New Jersey (BB- 6. Wikipedia. USS New Jersey (BB- 6. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa- class battleships, and was the only US battleship providing gunfire support during the Vietnam War. During World War II, New Jersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and screened aircraft carriers conducting raids in the Marshall Islands.
During the Korean War, she was involved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the . She was briefly reactivated in 1. Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1. Reactivated once more in the 1.
Navy program, New Jersey was modernized to carry missiles and recommissioned for service. In 1. 98. 3, she participated in US operations during the Lebanese Civil War.
New Jersey was decommissioned for the last time in 1. Work At Home Opportunities Executive Order. Navy Unit Commendation for service in Vietnam and 1. World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Lebanese Civil War, and service in the Persian Gulf. After a brief retention in the mothball fleet, she was donated to the Home Port Alliance in Camden, New Jersey, and began her career as a museum ship 1. October 2. 00. 1. Construction. She was launched on 1.
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December 1. 94. 2 and commissioned on 2. May 1. 94. 3. The ship was the second of the Iowa class to be commissioned by the U. S. Holden in command. Her secondary battery consisted of twenty 5.
With the advent of air power and the need to gain and maintain air superiority came a need to protect the growing fleet of allied aircraft carriers, so New Jersey was fitted with an array of Oerlikon 2. Bofors 4. 0 mmanti- aircraft guns. When reactivated in 1.
New Jersey had her 2. AA guns removed and was tailored for use as a heavy bombardment ship. When reactivated in 1. New Jersey had four twin 5. She was outfitted with four Phalanx CIWS mounts for protection against missiles and aircraft, and eight Armored Box Launchers and eight Quad Cell Launchers designed to fire Tomahawk missiles and Harpoon missiles, respectively. Roosevelt to repay a political debt, to then- New Jersey Governor Charles Edison. During his time in the Navy department, Edison pushed to build the Iowas, and to build one at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which secured votes for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1.
On 7 January 1. 94. Panama Canal war- bound for Funafuti, Ellice Islands. She reported there 2. January for duty with the United States Fifth Fleet, and three days later rendezvoused with Task Group 5. Marshall Islands. New Jersey screened the aircraft carriers from Japanese attack as planes from Task Group 5.
Kwajalein and Eniwetok 2. January – 2 February, softening up the latter for its invasion and supporting the troops who landed on 3. January. Spruance, commanding the 5th Fleet, broke his flag from her main. Her first action as a flagship was in Operation Hailstone, a two- day surface and air strike by her task force against the major Japanese fleet base on Truk in the Carolines. This attack was coordinated with the assault on Kwajalein, and effectively interdicted the Japanese naval retaliation to the conquest of the Marshalls. On 1. 7 and 1. 8 February, the task force accounted for two Japanese light cruisers, four destroyers, three auxiliary cruisers, two submarine tenders, two submarine chasers, an armed trawler, a plane ferry, and 2.
New Jersey destroyed a trawler and, with other ships, sank the destroyer Maikaze. New Jersey also fired on an enemy aircraft that attacked her formation.
The task force returned to the Marshalls 1. February. Mitscher's flagship Lexington for an air and surface bombardment of Mille, then rejoined Task Group 5. Palaus, and bombarded Woleai. Upon his return to Majuro, Admiral Spruance transferred his flag to Indianapolis. She screened the carrier striking force which gave air support to the invasion of Aitape, Tanahmerah Bay and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, 2.
April, then shelled shipping and shore installations at Truk 2. April – 3. 0 April. New Jersey and her formation shot down two enemy torpedo bombers at Truk. Her 1. 6- inch salvos pounded Ponape 1 May, destroying fuel tanks, badly damaging the airfield, and demolishing a headquarters building. On the second day of preinvasion air strikes, 1. June, New Jersey shot down an enemy torpedo bomber, and during the next two days her heavy guns battered Saipan and Tinian, in advance of the marine landings on 1.
June. Shadowing American submarines tracked the Japanese fleet into the Philippine Sea as Admiral Spruance joined his task force with Admiral Mitscher's to meet the enemy. New Jersey took station in the protective screen around the carriers on 1. June 1. 94. 4 as American and Japanese pilots dueled in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. That day and the next would cripple Japanese naval aviation; in what would become known as the . This loss of trained pilots and aircraft was equaled in disaster by the sinking of the Japanese aircraft carriers Taih. In addition to these losses, Allied forces succeeded in damaging two Japanese carriers and a battleship.
The anti- aircraft fire of New Jersey and the other screening ships proved virtually impenetrable; two American ships were slightly damaged during the battle. Only 1. 7 American planes were lost in combat. Here she broke the flag of Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.. On 3.
August New Jersey set sail from Pearl Harbor, and for the next eight months was based at Ulithi to lend support to Allied forces operating in the Philippines. In this span of the Pacific War, fast carrier task forces ranged the waters off the Philippines, Okinawa, and Formosa, making repeated strikes at airfields, shipping, shore bases, and invasion beaches. Early in October raids to destroy enemy air power based on Okinawa and Formosa were begun in preparation for the Leyte landings of 2. October 1. 94. 4.
Its plan for the Battle of Leyte Gulf included a feint by a northern force of planeless heavy attack carriers to draw away the battleships, cruisers and fast carriers with which Admiral Halsey was protecting the landings. This was to allow the Japanese Center Force to enter the gulf through San Bernardino Strait.
At the opening of the battle planes from the carriers guarded by New Jersey struck hard at both the Japanese Southern and Center Forces, sinking a battleship 2. October. The next day Halsey shaped his course north after the decoy force had been spotted.
Planes from his carriers sank four of the Japanese carriers, as well as a destroyer and a cruiser, while New Jersey steamed south at flank speed to meet the newly developed threat of the Center force. It had been turned back in a stunning defeat when she arrived. Two days later, the force came under suicide attack. In a melee of anti- aircraft fire from the ships and combat air patrol, New Jersey shot down a plane whose pilot maneuvered it into the port gun galleries of Intrepid, while machine gun fire from Intrepid wounded three of New Jersey's men. During a similar action 2.
November three Japanese planes were shot down by the combined fire of the force, part of one flaming onto the flight deck of Hancock. Intrepid was again attacked; she shot down one would- be kamikaze aircraft, but was crashed by another despite hits scored on the attacker by New Jersey gunners. New Jersey shot down a plane diving on Cabot and hit another plane which smashed into Cabot's port bow.
At the time the ships were operating about 3. Luzon in the Philippine Sea. The task force rendezvoused with Captain Jasper T. Acuff and his fueling group 1. December with the intention of refueling all ships in the task force and replacing lost aircraft. Each of the carriers in the Third Fleet had a weatherman aboard, and as the fleet flagship New Jersey had a highly experienced weatherman: Commander G.
Kosco, a graduate of the aerology course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who had also studied hurricanes in the West Indies; despite this, none of these individuals or staffs were able to give Third Fleet due warning of the impending typhoon. Many of the ships were caught near the center of the storm and buffeted by extreme seas and hurricane- force winds. Three destroyers—Hull, Monaghan and Spence—capsized and sank with nearly all hands, while a cruiser, five aircraft carriers, and three destroyers suffered serious damage. Fires occurred in three carriers when planes broke loose in their hangars, and some 1. She returned to Ulithi on Christmas Eve to be met by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz.
New Jersey's bridge, the Conning Tower, AKA . This includes a ship's wheel, the ship's revolutions per minute indicator, engine telegraphs, and communications gear.
A mannequin is visible in this photo. A portion of a small viewing port is visible at the back of the space. The outer shell of the Conning Tower consists of 1.
The door for this entrance (not shown) weighs more than a ton. Seen at the Battleship New Jersey, on the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey. Service with Battleship Division Seven, Admiral Badger. She guarded the carriers in their strikes on Formosa, Okinawa, and Luzon, on the coast of Indo- China, Hong Kong, Swatow and Amoy, and again on Formosa and Okinawa. At Ulithi 2. 7 January Admiral Halsey lowered his flag in New Jersey, but it was replaced two days later by that of Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger II commanding Battleship Division 7.
During the next two days, Okinawa was attacked from the air by the same striking force. As the carriers prepared for the invasion with strikes there and on Honsh. On 2. 4 March 1. 94. Here on 1. 4 August she once again became flagship of the 5th Fleet under Admiral Spruance. Brief stays at Manila and Okinawa preceded her arrival in Tokyo Bay 1.
September, where she served as flagship for the successive commanders of Naval Forces in Japanese waters until relieved 2. January 1. 94. 6 by Iowa (BB- 6. As part of the ongoing Operation Magic Carpet.