USS New Jersey BB 6. Wikipedia. USS New Jersey BB 6. Big J or Black Dragon2 is an Iowa classbattleship, and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa class battleships, and was the only US battleship providing gunfire support during the Vietnam War. ODAwWDY1Nw==/z/FS8AAOSwwbdWGw6V/$/New-The-Real-Vocal-Book-Volume-4-for-_57.jpg' alt='The New Real Book Vol 1 Bb' title='The New Real Book Vol 1 Bb' />After an initial sixissue limited series released in March 1999, Batman Beyond had its own comic book series, running through November 1999 until October 2001, for a. Socrates 469399 B. C. E. Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has soshaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that. Apparently People Are Worshipping the Norse Gods Again in the MCU. This is either the biggest thing to happen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the Battle of New. During World War II, New Jersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and screened aircraft carriers conducting raids in the Marshall Islands. During the Korean War, she was involved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the mothball fleet. She was briefly reactivated in 1. Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1. Reactivated once more in the 1. Navy program, New Jersey was modernized to carry missiles and recommissioned for service. In 1. 98. 3, she participated in US operations during the Lebanese Civil War. Copyright Symbol Microsoft Word 2003 here. New Jersey was decommissioned for the last time in 1. Navy Unit Commendation for service in Vietnam and 1. World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Lebanese Civil War, and service in the Persian Gulf. After a brief retention in the mothball fleet, she was donated to the Home Port Alliance in Camden, New Jersey, and began her career as a museum ship 1. October 2. 00. 1. ConstructioneditNew Jersey was one of the Iowa class fast battleship designs planned in 1. Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair. She was launched on 1. December 1. 94. 2 and commissioned on 2. May 1. 94. 3. The ship was the second of the Iowa class to be commissioned by the U. S. Navy. 3 The ship was christened at her launching by Carolyn Edison, wife of Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey, himself a former Secretary of the Navy and commissioned at Philadelphia 2. May 1. 94. 3, Captain Carl F. Holden in command. New Jerseys main battery consisted of nine 1. Mark 7 guns in three three gun turrets, which could fire 2,7. Her secondary battery consisted of twenty 53. DP turrets, which could hit targets up to 9 miles 1. With the advent of air power and the need to gain and maintain air superiority came a need to protect the growing fleet of allied aircraft carriers, so New Jersey was fitted with an array of Oerlikon 2. Bofors 4. 0 mmanti aircraft guns. When reactivated in 1. New Jersey had her 2. AA guns removed and was tailored for use as a heavy bombardment ship. When reactivated in 1. New Jersey had four twin 53. DP mounts removed. She was outfitted with four Phalanx CIWS mounts for protection against missiles and aircraft, and eight Armored Box Launchers and eight Quad Cell Launchers designed to fire Tomahawk missiles and Harpoon missiles, respectively. Unlike the other Iowa class battleships, New Jersey was named by President. Franklin D. Roosevelt to repay a political debt, to then New Jersey Governor Charles Edison. During his time in the Navy department, Edison pushed to build the Iowas, and to build one at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which secured votes for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1. World War II 1. 94. Shakedown and service with the 5th Fleet, Admiral SpruanceeditNew Jersey completed fitting out and trained her initial crew in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. On 7 January 1. 94. Panama Canal war bound for Funafuti, Ellice Islands. She reported there 2. January for duty with the United States Fifth Fleet, and three days later rendezvoused with Task Group 5. Marshall Islands. New Jersey screened the aircraft carriers from Japanese attack as planes from Task Group 5. Kwajalein and Eniwetok 2. January  2 February, softening up the latter for its invasion and supporting the troops who landed on 3. January. 4New Jersey began her career as a flagship 4 February in Majuro Lagoon when Admiral. Raymond A. Spruance, commanding the 5th Fleet, broke his flag from her main. Her first action as a flagship was in Operation Hailstone, a two day surface and air strike by her task force against the major Japanese fleet base on Truk in the Carolines. This attack was coordinated with the assault on Kwajalein, and effectively interdicted the Japanese naval retaliation to the conquest of the Marshalls. On 1. 7 and 1. 8 February, the task force accounted for two Japanese light cruisers, four destroyers, three auxiliary cruisers, two submarine tenders, two submarine chasers, an armed trawler, a plane ferry, and 2. Iseki Hydraulic Manual Log there. New Jersey destroyed a trawler and, with other ships, sank the destroyer Maikaze. New Jersey also fired on an enemy aircraft that attacked her formation. The task force returned to the Marshalls 1. February. 4Between 1. March and 1. 0 April, New Jersey first sailed with Rear Admiral. Marc A. Mitschers flagship Lexington for an air and surface bombardment of Mille, then rejoined Task Group 5. Palaus, and bombarded Woleai. Upon his return to Majuro, Admiral Spruance transferred his flag to Indianapolis. New Jerseys next war cruise, 1. April  4 May 1. 94. Majuro. She screened the carrier striking force which gave air support to the invasion of Aitape, Tanahmerah Bay and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, 2. April, then shelled shipping and shore installations at Truk 2. April  3. 0 April. New Jersey and her formation shot down two enemy torpedo bombers at Truk. Her 1. 6 inch salvos pounded Ponape 1 May, destroying fuel tanks, badly damaging the airfield, and demolishing a headquarters building. Powerpoint Math Games Version 1.0. After rehearsing in the Marshalls for the invasion of the Marianas, New Jersey put to sea 6 June in the screening and bombardment group of Admiral Mitschers Task Force. On the second day of preinvasion air strikes, 1. June, New Jersey shot down an enemy torpedo bomber, and during the next two days her heavy guns battered Saipan and Tinian, in advance of the marine landings on 1. June. 4The Japanese response to the Marianas operation was an order to its main surface fleet to attack and annihilate the American invasion force. Shadowing American submarines tracked the Japanese fleet into the Philippine Sea as Admiral Spruance joined his task force with Admiral Mitschers to meet the enemy. New Jersey took station in the protective screen around the carriers on 1. June 1. 94. 4 as American and Japanese pilots dueled in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. That day and the next would cripple Japanese naval aviation in what would become known as the Marianas Turkey Shoot, the Japanese lost some 4. American aircraft in return. This loss of trained pilots and aircraft was equaled in disaster by the sinking of the Japanese aircraft carriers Taih and Shkaku by the submarines Albacore and Cavalla, respectively, and the loss of Hiy to aircraft launched from the light aircraft carrier Belleau Wood. In addition to these losses, Allied forces succeeded in damaging two Japanese carriers and a battleship. The anti aircraft fire of New Jersey and the other screening ships proved virtually impenetrable two American ships were slightly damaged during the battle. Only 1. 7 American planes were lost in combat. Service with the 3rd Fleet, Admiral HalseyeditNew Jerseys final contribution to the conquest of the Marianas was in strikes on Guam and the Palaus from which she sailed for Pearl Harbor, arriving 9 August. Here she broke the flag of Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. ,7 2. August, becoming flagship of the United States Third Fleet.