Reagan opened by saying: I find myself developing a great respect for the leading lady in these ceremonies. Thus, the typhoon results in a court-martial. Box BB-62 Middletown, New Jersey 07748-0062 Phone: (908) 233-9093 Fax: (908) 233-0823 Or click below to visit their website: She had helped carry the American advance thousands of miles from the edge of the Japanese outer defensive perimeter in the Marshalls to the doorstep of Japan itself. She steamed to Bremerton and was decommissioned next to Missouri on December 17. Her main belt is 12.1 inches of armor on 0.875 inches of special treatment steel (STS) with concrete in between, inclined 19 degrees and tapering to 1.625 inches. The armor was designed to give a zone of immunity against fire from 16-inch/45-caliber guns at ranges of between 18,000 and 30,000 yards and is impenetrable by smaller guns. Admiral Spruance was cerebral and thorough; Admiral Halsey was emotional and impulsive. The New Jersey was the first flagship for the occupation of Japan. With Tirpitz neutralized, the New Jersey was the last U.S. battleship deployed to the North Atlantic during the war. On October 20, 1944, over 160,000 Army troops landed on Leyte, a large island in the center of the Philippines. On During the battle, USS New Jersey was the principal American flagship where Admiral Halsey made some of the most difficult, dramatic, and debated naval command decisions in World War II. While USS New Jersey rested in Bremerton, the period of dtente between the superpowers under Presidents Nixon and Ford ended when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, causing President Jimmy Carter to withdraw from the Moscow Olympics. United Nations Summer/Fall Offensive, 3. At broad noon I couldnt see the bow of my ship, 350 feet from the bridge. What it was like on a destroyer one-twentieth the New Jerseys size, I can only imagine.. Finally, if flagship New Jersey stayed behind with Task Force 34 to guard the strait, Halsey would miss the battle with the Japanese carriers. At 1000, on USS New Jerseys Flag Plot, Admiral Halsey was handed the resulting decoded message: WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY-FOUR THE WORLD WONDERS. He believed Admiral Nimitz was sarcastically questioning his judgment. With no clear target to retaliate against, USS New Jersey could only send some of her Marines, sailors, and doctors ashore to rescue and treat survivors. During World War II, USS New Jersey carried a complement of up to three observation floatplanes, initially OS2U Kingfishers and then Curtiss SC Seahawks. Back to 1st page. Risking submarine attack, the New Jersey and other American ships turned on their searchlights to guide the desperate planes home. A decoder on the New Jersey properly determined the first phrase Turkey Trots to Water was padding, but believed the second phrase The World Wonders was part of the message. Her 16- and 5-inch guns destroyed enemy bridges, tunnels, road and rail junctions, railroad yards, trains, bunkers, trenches, troops, mortar pits, artillery positions, shore batteries, supply dumps, ammo dumps, a dam, and an oil refinery. He first raised his four-star flag as the youngest full admiral on USS New Jersey, making her the flagship of the highest-ranking officer at sea. USS New Jersey had played a part by demonstrating American strength and resolve repeatedly during the Cold War. It rapidly revamped its Kongo-class battlecruisers as 30-knot fast battleships, and reputedly began designing new battleships to have unprecedented tonnage and armament. At Pearl Harbor, she was visited by the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral John S. McCain Jr., whose father, fast carrier commander Admiral John S. McCain Sr., had come aboard to confer with Admiral Halsey in December 1944, and whose son, Navy Captain and future Senator John S. McCain III, had been shot down and was imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton. Crossing the Pacific, the New Jersey was buzzed by Soviet Bear reconnaissance planes, a reminder of the Cold War that had recently heated up with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Admiral Carney rushed over and grabbed his arm, saying: Stop it! The fledgling United States Navy relied on smaller sailing vessels (such as the frigate USS Constitution) that had too few cannons to serve in the line of battle, and instead were used as scouts, escorts, and raiders. For several years more than her three sisters combined she was the worlds only operational battleship. Victory at Sea, World War II in the Pacific, by James F. Dunnigan & Albert A. Nofi, @ 1995 James F. Dunnigan & Albert A. Nofi, Published by William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, NY. The Battle of the Philippine Sea was a decisive American victory. The New Jersey and Wisconsin were selected, and the New Jersey remained in the reserve fleet until 2000. With barometers setting record lows, Halsey postponed refueling and ordered the fleet to hold a new course, which inadvertently prolonged its ordeal in the typhoon and prevented skippers from maneuvering independently. At President Roosevelts request, Congress on May 17, 1938, passed the Naval Act of 1938. But the New Jersey and Iowa were faster, handier, more stable, better constructed, and could fire faster and more accurately. The catapults that had launched her Seahawk floatplanes were removed to make room for landings on the fantail by a new Sikorsky HO3S-1 helicopter. He was told Yes, yes, we have that information by a staff officer on the New Jersey. USS New Jersey promptly supported the next offensive, the assault on the Marshall Islands. In summer 1956, she conducted the midshipman cruise to Norway, Great Britain, and Cuba, returning July 31. It demonstrated to the Soviets the renewed power of the Navy in the Pacific, highlighted by a simultaneous live fire demonstration by the New Jersey and Missouri. Winds up to 100 knots blew destroyers around like corks. She arrived off Vietnam on September 29. Like the spotter planes of old, these unmanned aircraft could be launched and recovered from the ship, perform surveillance, acquire targets for the ships guns, and assess damage. For six months, USS New Jersey steamed just offshore to deter further conflict with her intimidating presence. Meanwhile, at 1600 in the Sibuyan Sea, Admiral Kurita had turned away from San Bernardino Strait to retire temporarily from the zone of enemy air attacks. However, at 1714 Kurita resumed his course towards the strait. Admiral J. Paul Reason, the Navys first African American 4-star Admiral, commanded Cruiser-Destroyer Group 1 and Battle Group Romeo from the New Jersey. She was carrying 206 maintenance and supply men of the 248th Air Regiment. The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk, @ 1951 Herman Wouk, Published by Back Bay Books, New York, NY. Typhoon Cobra and USS New Jersey were immortalized in Herman Wouks Pulitzer-prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny, which was made into a movie. The following websites post reunion notices and provide resources for locating veterans: Hullnumber.com (Navy ships and air squadrons), United States Naval Academy Alumni Association. Wouks novel first gave a vivid description of the New Jersey when minesweeper Caines Lieutenants Maryk and Keefer (played by Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray in the movie) come aboard at Ulithi before the typhoon to seek help with their troubled Captain Queeg (played by Humphrey Bogart in the movie) from Admiral Halsey on the imposing New Jersey (played by a carrier in the movie, filmed when USS New Jersey was busy fighting in the Korean War). Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; (National Archives Microfilm Publication T715, 8892 rolls); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; National Archives, Washington, D.C. I am curious if my father, George M Rozeck was a member of the crew of the USS New Jersey. Naval Institute Proceedings, May 1952. Best time of my life, we did a west-pac and it was great!!! At the bottom of every email sent by HullNumber is an UNSUBSCRIBE link. Fifty such shells were produced, but it is unknown whether they were deployed on the New Jersey or his sister ships. Middletown, New Jersey 07748-0062 These line of battle ships or battleships were the mainstays of their fleets and decided the fate of empires. The Fast Carriers, The Forging of an Air Navy, by Clark G. Reynolds, @ 1968 Clark G. Reynolds, Published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY. | When the first American ship entered Leyte Gulf, Japan triggered its new decisive battle plan called Sho Ichi Go, meaning Victory One Operation. This complicated plan sought to use Admiral Ozawas carriers, which had only a few planes and trained pilots, as bait to lure Halsey and the Third Fleet away from Leyte Gulf while Japans still powerful surface fleet launched a two-pronged pincer attack Admiral Takeo Kurita through San Bernardino Strait and Admiral Shji Nishimura through Surigao Strait into Leyte Gulf to destroy the American amphibious ships there. Together they spearheaded the American counteroffensives in the Pacific that won the largest naval war in history. The USS New Jersey (BB-62) was an Iowa-class battleship that entered service in 1943 and saw combat in World War II and later fought in Korea and Vietnam. Within hours of USS New Jerseys imposing appearance off Beirut on September 25, a ceasefire was instituted. Given the small number of shells, long range, lack of aerial spotting, and poorly remixed powder, her fire was of limited effectiveness. In 1967, surface-to-surface missiles had sunk a warship for the first time when the Egyptians fired Soviet Styx missiles at an Israeli destroyer. She was the second of the Iowa class to be commissioned by the U.S. Navy. Missouri had been decommissioned in Bremerton in 1955. The New Jersey first set sail under her own power on July 8, 1943, training her crew and testing her guns and engines under Forrestals gaze. Moreover, the museum has exhibits telling the story of the ship from design and construction through final deactivation. The New Jerseys radar-directed 5-inch guns downed an aircraft in a Japanese night airstrike on March 29. Volume XII, Leyte, June 1944-January 1945, @ 1958 Samuel Eliot Morison. American dreadnought battleships (BB-26 through BB-44), built just before and during the First World War, grew in armament from eight 12-inch guns to twelve 14-inch guns, in displacement from 16,000 to 32,000 tons, in speed from 18 to 21 knots, and in propulsion from coal-fired expansion engines to oil-fired turbines. New Jersey was one of the Iowa-class "fast battleship" designs planned in 1938 by the Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair.She was launched on 7 December 1942 (the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor) and commissioned on 23 May 1943. To browse this image set, select from the options below. She was then floated pier side where a huge crane could aid in the final stages of construction, including the installation of the three massive, armored gun turrets and much of the topside equipment. The Navy ordered the first two battleships in July 1939. This database contains an index to U.S. Marine Corps muster rolls from 1798-1958. The New Jersey then headed for the newly occupied fleet base at Ulithi atoll in the Caroline Islands. She also got two Mark 48 shore bombardment computers and a target-designation system. However, the Nixon Administration had begun to reduce American troop levels in favor of Vietnamization, the plan to shift combat duties to the South Vietnamese. On March 14, 1945, Admiral Spruance took USS New Jersey and the Fifth Fleets carriers for renewed airstrikes on Japan, hitting warships and airfields. However, the reduced American force could not prevent the escape of two damaged Japanese battleships Ise and Hyuga, a cruiser, and four destroyers. The New Jerseys secondary battery from 1943 through 1982 consisted of twenty 5-inch/38-caliber Mark XII guns with rifled barrels. USS New Jersey headed into the Yellow Sea and shelled Chinnampo on North Koreas west coast on May 25. In an overhaul in Norfolk, USS New Jersey, like the other Iowa-class battleships, had her 16-inch gun barrels removed and replaced. The U.S. Navy was escorting American-flagged tankers and had been attacked with missiles and mines. An instant after she was hit, she was wrapped in flames. The New Jersey sent its medical staff to help the wounded from the stricken ships. In support of amphibious operations, the New Jerseys 16-inch guns can deliver shells as heavy as an automobile with pinpoint accuracy. In August, warring militias started shelling the Marines, and on September 8 smaller U.S. ships began firing to defend the Marines. Thus, Spruance kept Fifth Fleet within supporting range of Saipan, and placed Lees battleline including the New Jersey fifteen miles in front of Admiral Marc Mitschers carriers to protect them. The ships hull, main guns, and much of its superstructure appear as they did when the New Jersey served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and the Cold War, making it a fitting museum and memorial to all the conflicts and eras during which it served. She earned the following commendations: World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal; Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation; America Defense Service Ribbon; and the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Ribbon with nine battle stars 1. The Navy's ranks totaled 126,418 in September 1939. It was an honor and a privilege to serve on-board the USS New Jersey with my fellow shipmates, and to be part of the final decommissioning crew. At 2022 Admiral Halsey sent a radio telegram from USS New Jersey to Admirals Nimitz and Kinkaid stating he was PROCEEDING NORTH WITH 3 GROUPS TO ATTACK CARRIER FORCE AT DAWN. Nimitz and Kincaid believed this referred only to Halseys three carrier groups and not to Task Force 34, which they again assumed was guarding San Bernardino Strait. The Iowa-class ships were the last class of American battleships built, and the last battleships in service in the world. She returned to service in November. This is the Navy, here, the real Navy.. During her deployment, she had steamed from the westernmost arm of the Pacific to the easternmost arm of the Atlantic and served with all four of Americas active Fleets. P.O. For best viewing use Sea of Thunder, Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945, by Evan Thomas, @ 2006 Evan Thomas, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. Including the New Jersey and six other fast battleships, eight heavy cruisers, thirteen light cruisers, and sixty-nine destroyers, the fast carrier task force had the greatest tonnage of any single naval formation ever to go to battle. USS New Jersey, a 45,000-ton Iowa class battleship, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Leyte Operations, 7. The barbettes are 17.3 inches armor above 1.5 inches STS tapering as they descend deeper into the ship. Before the battle, American submarines spotted multiple Japanese task forces headed across the Philippine Sea separating the Philippines and Marianas Islands. There on April 12, 1954, she hosted the Atlantic Fleet change of command ceremony, presided over by now-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Carney. Just as Admiral Sprague expected his ships to be annihilated, Kurita ordered his ships north to reorganize at 0911. Halsey and the New Jersey led a surface fleet to engage battleships Ise and Hyuga at their reported position in Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, but they once again were able to flee from Halsey. At 0215, USS TRIGGER attacks the convoy again, fires three torpedoes and all hit and sink DELAGOA MARU near Tanegashima. These aircraft were used from the time of commissioning until the spring of 1945. After visiting Portugal, Scotland, and Norway, she led NATO exercises north of the Artic Circle. Judging Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. Admiral Kinkaids messages to Admiral Halsey on USS New Jersey were being monitored at Pearl Harbor by Admiral Nimitz. To buy tickets, visit battleshipnewjersey.org/purchase. Since leaving Pearl Harbor in August, she had been at sea for 85 of 95 days, engaged in near-constant fighting, and steamed 36,185 miles equal to 1 times around the world. Date of Birth: 04/12/1934. The New Jersey sailed to Hawaii and California, carrying GIs returning from the war. Her firing broke up counterattacks, harassed the enemy at night, and supported amphibious feints while X Corps took Heartbreak Ridge and the Punchbowl. In April 1937, the allied powers invoked the escalator clause in the Second London Naval Treaty which enabled them again to build battleships with 16-inch guns. To use this service, please write to the following address and include the service member's full name, Social Security number, grade or rank, and, if possible, last known duty station. During her return trip to Majuro, the New Jersey protected carriers striking the base at Woleai in the Caroline Islands. The 55,000-square-foot teak deck will soon be completely restored. 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This required a greater displacement of over 45,000 tons, the adoption of a lighter turret design, and the use of special treatment steel (STS), a high tensile steel with armor properties comparable to heavier Class B armor, to replace armor and structural steel in some areas. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. Records of Naval Operating Forces: Logbook of the USS Missouri (Record Group 313) Dates: 1945 The collection consists of the logbook, or "deck log" of the USS Missouri during the calendar year of 1945, which includes lists of officers, reports on positions and weather conditions, references to combat, and other information. Both Spruance and Towers went on to command the Pacific Fleet. Other ports/arrival records USS New Jersey was the only battleship recalled to duty during the Vietnam War. Halsey later said he made a mistake in bowing to pressure and turning south. Kelley, emphasized: There is no weapon system in the world that comes even close to the visible symbol of enormous power represented by the battleship.. During that solemn ceremony, her last commanding officer . Kamikazes from Japan eventually struck the fleet off Iwo Jima, sinking an escort carrier, the last carrier sunk in the war. In August 1985, USS New Jersey headlined San Franciscos celebration of the 40th anniversary of V-J Day, renamed Peace in the Pacific, which the New Jersey had helped secure. had led the successful Southwest Pacific campaign from Guadalcanal up the Solomon Islands. These records are not available online. The Navy accepted the Home Port Alliances application on January 20, 2000. They usually include portraits of the sailors, officers, and other personnel aboard, accompanied by the individuals surname and naval rate. As the Fifth Fleet flagship, USS New Jersey was a frontrunner to be the site for the Japanese surrender. The New Jersey was awarded the prestigious Spokane Trophy for the best overall excellence in combat systems and warfare readiness. ricoh fax stuck in standby rhs 14 degree sbc heads eastern kentucky craigslist farm and garden. The Navy carrier planes sank another carrier and two oilers, and damaged three carriers and a battleship. The three-turret layout for the main battery remained the same but the size of the main guns was increased from 16-inch/45 caliber to 16-inch/50-caliber, meaning the guns were 80 inches longer and their shells would travel almost a mile further. USS New Jersey and the Fifth Fleet weathered the most powerful kamikaze attacks of the war, with over 355 kamikazes and 340 other planes attacking on April 6-7, and 185 kamikazes and a hundred or more other planes on April 11-12, 1945. The ramp came up, the breeches closed hydraulically, and the guns elevated. [3] The new AEGIS system allowed Ticonderoga to track and engage many aerial targets more effectively than any previous U. Ticonderoga entered service in 1983 and deployed later . Lee received only Roger in reply from the New Jersey. USS New Jersey returned to the Delaware on November 11, greeted by more than 25,000 people and by a tugboat that had helped at her launching in 1942. Admiral Spruance ordered the New Jersey and six other fast battleships, with cruisers and destroyers, to form a battle line under Admiral Lee. In 2007, best-selling author Tom Clancy had his 60th birthday party on the fantail of the New Jersey, attended by retired Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sean Connery, and Stephen Spielberg. USS New Jerseys other anti-aircraft armament evolved with experience with air attacks during World War II, and with reduced air threat and higher jet speeds after the war. Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the USS New Jersey (BB 62), Report an offensive or inappropriate entry, I was part of the the decmission crew. In 1955, after a shakedown cruise to Cuba and the Dominican Republic, USS New Jersey took the midshipmen on a summer cruise to Spain, England, and Cuba. She went on to visit France and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, traditionally the cruises final destination, where gunnery training occurred. The radio telegram led both Nimitz and Kinkaid to assume Halsey was forming Task Force 34 and leaving it to cover San Bernardino Strait. On November 25-26, 1968, she destroyed or heavily damaged over 300 bunkers, tunnels, and other structures. The New Jersey then passed through San Bernardino Strait; the same strait through which Japanese battleships fled from the New Jersey in the Battle for Leyte Gulf. The tonnages of the ships involved and of the ships sunk were greater than in any other naval battle, and it was fought over an area larger than the Northeast United States. Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and Far East Commander Matthew Ridgeway came aboard to confer with Admiral Martin on October 1, 1951. The USS New Jersey continued to blast targets until April 1969. HullNumber.com does not share your information. Additionally, her interior spaces were air-conditioned and reconfigured for greater crew comfort as befitting a ship serving in the new era of an all-volunteer military. SERVER UPGRADE IN PROGRESS. Another source of information on locating ex-service members is the following publication: Two emergency diesel generators each produced an additional 250 kW. Rather than close for surface combat, however, Admiral Jisabur Ozawas fleet launched massive air attacks at long range on June 19, 1944. On March 19, the New Jersey shot down about a half dozen aircraft attacking the carriers, damaged others, and used her floatplane to rescue a downed carrier pilot. The Marianas were over 1,000 miles from the nearest American airbase on newly captured Eniwetok, so the carriers escorted by the New Jersey would have to supply all the air support. Battleships of the Iowa Class, by Philippe Caresse, translated by Bruce Taylor, @ 2019 United States Naval Institute, Published by the Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. She was christened at her launching by Carolyn . Admiral Halsey knew the location of Japans two surface-ship pincers Admiral Kuritas large force and Admiral Nishimuras smaller force but his staff repeatedly pounded the New Jerseys chart table exclaiming: Where the hell are, they, those goddam carriers? Unbeknownst to Halsey, Admiral Ozawa was to the north sailing his decoy carrier fleet to the Philippines Cape Engao Cape Deception in English trying to be discovered. The New Jersey led battleships into the missile age, being the first warship to launch a Tomahawk cruise missile, and the first battleship to fire a Harpoon missile, the anti-ship version of the Tomahawk, and the Phalanx anti-missile gun. After sea trials off California and drills off Pearl Harbor, she headed back to the war on August 2. Volunteers swarmed over the ship in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard where she was built. USS New Jersey tried to refuel the destroyer Spence, but Spence rolled so wildly that the fuel lines parted, and she almost collided with the New Jersey. The cover is a little worn ie. Admiral Nimitz said the typhoons damage represented a more crippling blow to the Third Fleet than it might be expected to suffer in anything less than a major action. The New Jersey lost its float planes but escaped serious damage. The Home Port Alliance for the Battleship New Jersey sought to return the ship to Camden near Philadelphia where she had been built. Expert researcher and WWII historian Bill Beigel will conduct a thorough search of deck logs, squadron after action reports, and other records, concerning units and individuals who served in the Navy in World War II. Her armored deck below that is 5 inches armor on 1.25 inches STS. Volume VIII, New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944, @ 1953 Samuel Eliot Morison. Halsey muttered on the New Jerseys flag bridge: When I get my teeth into something, I hate to let go. Instead, he ordered the New Jersey and Task Force 34 to speed north towards Ozawas carriers, while ordering Admiral John S. McCain Sr.s distant carrier group to launch long-range airstrikes to aid Taffy 3. The Japanese main fleet had already fled, but Spruances carrier planes pounded the atoll and the remaining ships in its lagoon. The New Jersey and six other battleships then formed a battle line that pulverized the Japanese base on Ponape Island in the Carolines on May 1. PARTS of HulNumber are UNDER REVISION. Unable to prevent the New Jerseys battle group from patrolling these international waters off Siberia, the Soviet Union shadowed her with a cruiser and frigates, and buzzed her with patrol aircraft, bombers, and helicopters. 13 Jun 1945 : USS Wisconsin arrived at Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands for repairs. If Admiral Halsey had left Task Force 34 behind to guard San Bernardino Strait, or perhaps immediately sent it south at Kinkaids first call for help, its battleships would have encountered Kuritas battleships on October 25. On September 9, 1983, USS New Jersey was again ordered to head for a hotspot: Lebanon. What was scheduled to be a three-and-a-half-month deployment had turned out to be an eleven-month deployment, the longest deployment of any Navy ship since World War II.
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