Record Smashed: Battleship USS New Jersey Blasted Vietnam with More 16-inch Shells Than in WWII and the Korean War

Record Smashed: Battleship USS New Jersey Blasted Vietnam with More 16-inch Shells Than in WWII and the Korean War

The battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) has recently undergone a $10 million overhaul in US shipyards. But the big battleship isn’t being reactivated again.  She is being overhauled just to keep her in tip-top condition so she can continue to serve as a museum piece. Those big 16-inch guns would still wreak havoc on an enemy during a seaborne amphibious landing. But the big battlewagon is from a bygone era.  Lead ship of her class, USS Iowa (BB-61…