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CO TENTS rw ,, M mu 2064 it is Z 2 Ship's History 6 Battleship Today 10 Preparation for Overseas Movement 12 Leaving Port 17 CO X XO X CMC 28 Jerseymen 33 Pusan, Republic of Korea 42 lnchon, Republic of Korea 49 Administration 65 Engineering 92 C Operations 113 Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines 122 Crossing the Line 129 Supply 145 Medical 149 Dental 152 Navigation 155 Weapons 188 MarDet 193 Fremantle, Western Australia 209 Brisbane, Queensland 225 Sydney, New South Wales 248 Hobart, Tasmania 257 The Diplomacy D 262 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 270 Tiger Cruise 276 Home At Last 283 Explosive Ordnance Disposal 285 Newcomers f Retakes 287 Cruisebook Staff
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JE. DH The history of the battleship USS New Jersey is meshed with the history of the United States in the late 20th century. When there were wars she rendered fire support and when there was cause to celebrate she launched the fireworks. This ship has truly been the American people's acting arm abroad for 45 years. Her story began in 1942, exactly one year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when she slid down the ways of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. After sea trials, she was commissioned May 23rd the following year to the cheers of thousands of shipyard workers and the crack ofa champagne bottle wielded by the wife of Charles Edison, governor of the state of New Jersey. The battleshipfs role in naval engagements was almost entirely limited to antiaircraft screening while the task force aircraft carriers THE BATTLESHIP YESTERDAY performed the operations. However she also served the fleet in pre- invasion beachhead bombardment operations and as a flag ship. During the war she'claimed nine battle stars and embarked Admirals Spruance and Bull Halsey. While Admiral Halsey was embarked, New Jersey was part of one of the most controversial and historic actions of the war. In a last ditch attempt to cripple advancing A invasion forces, the Japanese sent a decoy force of planeless carriers north of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines while their Center and Southern forces assembled near the islands. Admiral Halsey took the bait and steamed north to intercept the carriers with New Jersey and other fast ships of Task Force 34. The Japanese forces off Leyte struck the remaining forces and an alarmed Admiral Nimitz sent the now famous dispatch to Admiral Halsey: 'fWhere is Task Force 34? The world wonders. Admiral Halsey reversed course and steamed south at flank speed, but was too late. The American destroyers and light carriers at Leyte had already annihilated the Japanese attacking force under overwhelming odds. The Philippines were successfully captured and the Japanese Empire was effectively severed, marking the most critical naval action since the Battle of Midway. New Jersey missed by hours a classic engagement with her worthy foe Yamato, the largest battleship ever built. New Jersey continued to splash kamikazes and shell her wayup the archipelago to Japan, where she was part of the first force to strike Tokyo since Doolittle's raid. After a quick refit in the states, the end of the war
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