USS New Jersey: Battleships are forever!

From: Sea Classics | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Daves, Elmer | Copyright information

Nearing its second anniversary as America's latest floating memorial, a series of exciting new exhibits continues to lure record crowds to Camden's namesake battleship

USS New Jersey (BB-62) didn't waste a second zeroing in her sights soon after the refurbished battleship opened to the public in October 2001. However this time her target wasn't well-entrenched enemy artillery but new audiences of Americans anxious to visit one of the most powerful warships ever built - the famed 16-in ...

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