Digital Matted Photograph USN USS New Jersey Battleship BB-62 FIRING BROADSIDE For Sale

We are Very Pleased toPresent this Digital Photograph US Navy USS New Jersey Battleship BB-62 \"FIRINGBROADSIDE\". Ready to Frame- Overall Matted Size 14” X11” (Mat width 1-1/2”) Inner Image Size 9\" X 5-1/4\". Vivid COLOR. Printedon sturdy, Glossy Photo Paper. Suitable for framing. Portrait Format. BeveledMat. Mat has backing. Packaged in a plastic sealed bag. Shipped in sturdycardboard box. Enjoy!

USS New Jersey (BB-62) is anIowa-class battleship and was the second ship of the United States Navy to benamed after the US state of New Jersey. She was often referred to fondly as\"Big J\". New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions thanthe other three completed Iowa-class battleships and was the only US battleshipproviding gunfire support during the Vietnam War. During World War II, NewJersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and screened aircraft carriersconducting raids in the Marshall Islands. During the Korean War, she wasinvolved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she wasdecommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the\"mothball fleet\". She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent toVietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969.Reactivated once more in the 1980s as part of the 600-ship Navy program, NewJersey was modernized to carry missiles and recommissioned for service. In1983, she participated in US operations during the Lebanese Civil War. NewJersey was decommissioned for the last time in 1991 (after serving a total of21 years in the active fleet), having earned a Navy Unit Commendation forservice in Vietnam and 19 battle and campaign stars for combat operationsduring 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 has beenas a museum ship there since 15 October 2001.