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1942 - 1943 (Building / Shakedown Cruise)
1950 - 1953 / Korean War
1954 - 1969
Recommissioning & off to Vietnam, 1968
Vietnam Service / 1968 - Decommissioning 1969
1970 - 1982
1983 - 1985
1986 - 1998
1999 - Present
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 | 121k | A closeup view of Turret 1 and the barrels. Note the rifling is visible in the barrel lining. The radar on the tower has been censored out. Circa, 1943/1944. | USN photo. | ||
 | 96k | 24 January 1944, two quad 40mm Bofors mounts of the Iowa (BB-61) are visible in the foreground with New Jersey (BB-62) in the background. The two ships are now turning to port. Note the crew in battle gear. | USN photo. | ||
 | 71k | Underway, starboard view. Jan. 1944. | USN photo. | ||
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356k | Four Battleships in a lagoon in the Pacific which is not identified. The four Battleships are identifiable by their paint schemes: New Jersey (BB-62) and Iowa (BB-61) in the foreground, and Washington (BB-56) and North Carolina (BB-55) further back, surrounded by destroyers and other ships. The resolution of the photo is not that great, but the photo is of interest due to the number of Battleships in one frame. The credit on the back of the photo is Official US Navy, via Acme Newspictures, Inc., dated 7/8/44. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. | ||
 | 130k | August, 1944 photo showing secondary and antiaircraft batteries clustered in the superstructure and at the hull extremities. Two OS2U Kingfisher spotting aircraft are mounted on the catapults at the stern. | USN photo. | ||
 | 113k | Crewmen are seen loading 16" projectiles through a main deck scuttle. The projectiles are hoisted down several decks by a portable beam hoist built onto the top of the main turrets. Note another shell being handled in the background. | USN photo. | ||
 | 268k | Ordnancemen aboard New Jersey (BB-62) move a 16-Inch projectile to an ammunition hoist in November 1944. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 416k | Barbette of 16" gun on board the New Jersey (BB-62). Gunners packing in bags of powder which will fire the huge shell already in gun. November 1944. | NARA Photo # 080-G-469993 by Lt. Comdr. Charles Fenno Jacobs. Photo # HD-SN-99-02599, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | ||
 | 148k | New Jersey (BB-62) rides through a stiff storm in the Western Pacific on 8 Nov. 1944. Photographed from the Intrepid (CV-11), Hancock (CV-19) is in the background. | Official U.S.Navy photo # 80-G-291047, now in the collections of the National Archives. | ||
 | 76k | Oil on canvas painting by the artist Randall Wilson entitled "New Jersey, batten down the Hatches." The New Jersey (BB-62) rides through a stiff storm in the Western Pacific on 8 Nov. 1944. The Hancock (CV-19) is in the background. | Text and drawing courtesy of naval-art.com | ||
 | 42k | Gunners aboard New Jersey (BB-62) watch flames rising from the carrier Intrepid (CV-11), struck by a kamikaze off the Phillippines on 25 November 1944. | U.S. Navy Photograph # 3093-45, submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 172k | A salvo from the main guns of the New Jersey (BB-62), 1944. | USNHC photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | ||
 | 122k | Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, Commander, Third Fleet (left center) eats Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of his flagship, New Jersey (BB-62), 30 November 1944. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # 80-G-291498, now in the collections of the National Archives. | ||
 | 92k | Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., USN, Commander, Third Fleet (right) confers with Task Force 38 commander Vice Admiral John S. McCain, at Halsey's desk on board the Third Fleet flagship, New Jersey (BB-62), December 1944. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 80-G-302244, now in the collections of the National Archives. | ||
 | 458k | Japanese prisoners of war are bathed, clipped, "deloused," and issued GI clothing as soon as they are taken aboard the New Jersey (BB-62), December 1944. | NARA Photo # 080-G-469956 by Lt. Comdr. Charles Fenno Jacobs. Photo # HD-SN-99-02964, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | ||
 | 252k | A sailor always finds himself a place to rest... New Jersey (BB-62) December 1944. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 48k | Enlisted men relax aboard New Jersey (BB-62) on December 1944. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 75k | Crewmen are cleaning and greasing 40mm shells inside one of the gun tubs. Note the tub is lined with racks holding 40mm clips of four rounds, December 1944. | USN photo. | ||
 | 66k | At sea with the Pacific Fleet, 1944-45. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # K-15383, now in the collections of the National Archives. | ||
 | 173k | 8 February 1945 photo taken at the Ulithi Atoll anchorage. The ship is in need of a refit as her appearance shows. She looks pretty forlorn with paint peeling in splotches along her hull. | USN photo. | ||
 | 119k | Refueling a destroyer. Note the 'bloomers' on the 5in/38cal barrels, 16 March 1945. | USN photo. | ||
 | 115k | Close up of an OS2U Kingfisher seaplane being rocovered by the Battleship New Jersey (BB-62). The plane was hoisted aboard by the crane on the rear deck. These aircraft were used from the time of commissioning until the spring of 1945. | USNHC # 80-G-469922. | ||
 | 40k | A watercolor by the artist Richard C. Moore entitled "USS New Jersey." The New Jersey (BB-62) is shown firing her main battery to starboard in this WW II era painting. | Photo courtesy of ship-paintings.com. Courtesy of the artist Richard C. Moore. | ||
 | 275k | The New Jersey (BB-62) was refitted in 1945 with the now standard square faced bridge. She is shown being inclined at Puget Sound on 24 June 1945. Her conning tower carries one large periscope (for her captian) and two smaller ones, with a Mark 27 radar abaft them. She has also been fitted with Mark 57 radar directors for her 40mm guns. Note the floater nets on No.3 turret, and the folded down splinter shield for the Mark 51 director controlling the 40mm guns atop it. The rails carried inclining weights. By measuring the changing list of the ship as the weights were moved, naval architects could calculate the ship's percise displacement & stability. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
 | 431k | The New Jersey (BB-62) is shown being inclined at Puget Sound on 24 June 1945. Looking somewhat like the late actor Jimmy Durante's nose, the bow view emphasizes the unusual hull form of this class, with a long, narrow entry and then a sudden widening to a parallel midbody. It was not altogether successful, and it has been argued that a more conventional form might not have rquired as much power. However, the combination of displacement and the Panama Canal limit made the long parallel (constant-beam) section inevitable, and the unusal hull form was the result. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | ||
 | 331k | View of the New Jersey's (BB-62) # 1 turret and amidships area at Puget Sound on 24 June 1945. | U.S. Navy Photograph # 3093-45, submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 257k | Mid stern view of the New Jersey (BB-62) at Puget Sound on 24 June 1945. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 331k | Stern view of the New Jersey (BB-62) at Puget Sound on 24 June 1945. | U.S. Navy Photograph # 3093-45, submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 208k | Fantail area photo showing New Jersey's (BB-62) AC crane at Puget Sound on 24 June 1945. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | ||
 | 84k | Underway on post-refit trials. She finally has a sqaure enclosed bridge like the rest of the Iowa class in 1945 and now also wears measure 22 camouflage, 30 June 1945. | USN photo. | ||
 | 92k | Underway on post-refit trials. She finally has a sqaure enclosed bridge like the rest of the Iowa class in 1945 and now also wears measure 22 camouflage, 30 June 1945. | USN photo. | ||
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175k | Stern view port side of the New Jersey (BB-62) in Puget Sound dated 2 July 1945 as she was rearming in preparation for her last wartime deployment. | USN BuShips photo # 85562 courtesy of David Buell. | ||
 | 83k | Stern view of the New Jersey (BB-62) at Yokosuka, December 1945. | USN photo by PH2 Ivan van Meter & submitted by Jack LaPeer via Fabio Peņa. | ||
 | 488k | Post-war view while anchored in Tokyo Bay. The Japanese battleship Nagato can be seen in the right background in this image, 30 December 1945. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. | ||
 | 258k | New Jersey (BB-62) taken in the 1946-48 time period. Most probably in the Atlantic, before going into reserve. Note that she is still carrying SC-1 floatplanes on her catapults. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. Photo added 02/09/08. | ||
 | 241k | Workers inspect the New Jersey (BB-62) at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in September 1946. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. Photo i.d. courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | ||
 | 55k | The New Jersey (BB-62) is seen in New York Harbor, circa 1946-48. Note ice on water. | USN photo courtesy of USNI. | ||
 | 108k | The New Jersey (BB-62) is seen in early 1948 being moved from the New York Navy Yard to the New York Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet based at Bayonne, New Jersey. The ship was inactivated at New York Navy Yard, beginning on 18 October 1947 and was formally decommissioned at Bayonne on 30 June 1948. | USN photo courtesy of Mike Green. Photo released from the Public Information Office, 3rd Naval District at New York. | ||
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