Two additional color images, and eight black and white photographs make up the expansion of this book to 72 pages from the original 64. This book covers the "Big J," or "Black Dragon" throughout her career in the U.S. Navy, from construction during the early years of WWII, early wartime (1943-1945) shelling Japanese held islands, screening USN aircraft carrier battle groups, then the Korean War, shelling North Korean positions, Vietnam War, shelling North Vietnam positions, mothball fleet, then re-commissioned again 1983-1991 for service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Persian Gulf, and eventually as a museum ship in late 2001. Many photographs in the book have never been previously published.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Title
USS New Jersey BB-62
Details
2nd expanded edition. English text, paperback, 108 bw- and 19 colour photos, large landscape format. 72 pages.
State
new
Classic Warship Publications PO Box 57591 Tucson, Arizona Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
