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=== ''New Jersey'' === {{main|USS New Jersey (BB-62)}} [[File:USS New Jersey.jpg|thumb|alt=A black and white image; a large ship with gun barrels pointed to the right and up, flames and smoke can be seen emanating from the gun barrels.|''New Jersey'' bombarding positions off South Vietnam during the latter part of her 1968β69 WESTPAC cruise]] ''New Jersey'' was ordered 4 July 1939, laid down 16 September 1940, launched 7 December 1942, and commissioned 23 May 1943. ''New Jersey'' completed fitting out and trained her initial crew in the Western Atlantic and [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]] before transferring to the Pacific Theatre in advance of the planned assault on the Marshall Islands, where she screened the US fleet of aircraft carriers from enemy air raids. At the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the ship protected carriers with her anti-aircraft guns. ''New Jersey'' then bombarded [[Iwo Jima]] and [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]. During the Korean War, the ship pounded targets at [[Wonsan]], [[Yangyang]], and Kansong. Following the [[s:Korean Armistice Agreement|Armistice]], ''New Jersey'' conducted training and operation cruises until she was decommissioned on 21 August 1957. Recalled to duty in 1968, ''New Jersey'' reported to the gunline off the Vietnamese coast and shelled North Vietnamese targets before departing the line in December 1968.{{sfn|Polmar|2001|p=129}} She was decommissioned the following year.{{sfn|Stillwell|1986|p=222}} Reactivated in 1982 under the 600-ship Navy program,{{sfn|Stillwell|1986|pp=243β251}} ''New Jersey'' was sent to [[Lebanon]] to protect US interests and US Marines, firing her main guns at [[Druze]] and [[Syria]]n positions in the [[Beqaa Valley]] east of [[Beirut]].{{sfn|Stillwell|1986|pp=261β273}} Decommissioned for the last time 8 February 1991, ''New Jersey'' was briefly retained on the ''Naval Vessel Register'' before being donated to the Home Port Alliance of [[Camden, New Jersey]] for use as a museum ship in October 2001.{{sfn|Hore|2005|p=217}}
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