We have compiled over 175 articles from 1939 to the present. The USS New Jersey is coming home. If we do it right when we get her, and we will do it right, the history lesson that can be taught to kids is just extraordinary. When I first went to the New Jersey, it was to me just another normal assignment. It's about pride.
People really love the New Jersey.
Often, he would accommodate groups of veterans who wanted to tour the ship they once served aboard. They would talk to the sailors doing the jobs they once did. The younger sailors saw this, the pride the older people had for the ship. With the crash of a champagne bottle across its bow, the ship slid slowly out of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on skids lathered with 100,000 pounds of grease and into the Delaware River. The Iowa was completed a few months before the New Jersey.