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New Jersey earned nine battle stars for her World War II service, four for the Korean War, three for the Vietnam War, and three for action in Lebanon and the Persian Gulf region. [68] Among other awards, she received the Navy Unit Commendation for Vietnam and Lebanon service, the Presidential Unit Citation from the Republic of the Philippines ...
While deployed off Vietnam, the USS New Jersey encountered a small US Navy ship. Fearing that the unidentified vessel was a North Vietnamese gunboat, the commanding officer of the smaller ship flashed a message to the New Jersey using its signal lamp, ordering the battleship to identify itself or be fired upon. In response, Snyder ordered that ...
The battleship was commissioned in May 1943 for service in World War II. The New Jersey "played a role in every major amphibious invasion after 1943" in the Pacific Theater, including Iwo Jima ...
USS New Jersey (BB-16), a battleship commissioned in 1906, decommissioned in 1920, and sunk in 1923 in bombing tests; USS New Jersey (BB-62), a battleship commissioned in 1943, seeing service in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War; currently a museum ship in Camden, New Jersey; USS New Jersey (SSN-796), is a Virginia-class submarine ...
The departure date depends on the availability of the shipyard, the same one where the USS New Jersey was built in the early 1940s. Workers recently removed the ship's mast and radar array ...
"The Count" – USS Comte de Grasse; named for Comte de Grasse (French, "Count de Grasse"), an ally of the Americans in the American War of Independence "Curious" – HMS Furious [ 19 ] "Cellblock 70" – USS Carl Vinson ; humorous reference to restricted liberty for crew after incidents in Bremerton, WA, in the mid-1980s.
Dedicated in 1998 by Sen. John McCain and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans‘ Memorial and the Vietnam Era Museum is the only one of its kind in the entire nation.
Pages in category "Vietnam War battleships of the United States" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. N. USS New Jersey (BB-62) V. Iowa-class battleship