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New Jersey

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ClassIowa class
TypeBattleship (BB)
HullBB-62
FateAfloat. Not sunk. Survived the war.
Armament (class)Three triple 16-inch turrets and two funnels, on a long hull. Four were finished.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

New Jersey
Original caption: USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62): Rear Admiral Donald B. Beary (left) and Captain Carl E. Holden, during a shipboard inspection at Norfolk, 5 September 1943. Uniform note: eagles on hats face both ways, reflecting recent regulation change. Public domain.

USS New Jersey (BB-62) was an Iowa-class battleship of the United States Navy. In 1945 her captain was Edmund Tyler Wooldridge.

Wooldridge assumed command on 26 January 1945 and was relieved on 25 July 1945. That first tour ran from late January through the spring and on into midsummer.

Okinawa is the battle given for her, dated 1 April 1945. On that day she was with the fast carriers off the island, and she was not sunk.

The April day fell inside his opening command. He had taken the ship at the end of January and still had her in late July, well after she had been off Okinawa with the fast carriers.

He was captain again almost at once. The second tour began on 28 July 1945 and ended when he was relieved on 17 November 1945, so the same officer had New Jersey through the late summer and the autumn. New Jersey was not sunk. She survived the war.

The pictures on this page are the originals.