57,000 Ton USS New Jersey: One US Navy Battleship, Four Wars, Four Commissions, and Forty Years Between Her First Shot and Her Last.

57,000 Ton USS New Jersey: One US Navy Battleship, Four Wars, Four Commissions, and Forty Years Between Her First Shot and Her Last.

USS New Jersey fired in combat across four conflicts separated by forty years. She screened the fast carriers through the Pacific war, came out of reserve to duel shore batteries off Korea, where a hit on Turret One cost her the only sailor she lost to enemy action in four commissions. Vietnam brought her back for a single tour in which she fired 5,688 sixteen-inch shells — almost as many as World War II and both Korean deployments combined. Her…