USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) ~ FROM PHILADELPHIA TO CAMDEN: A Retrospective of 80 Years. Part I: World War II, First Commissioning
By Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, US Navy (Retired)
Eighty years ago, the United States Navy ordered Battleship Number 62, ultimately to be named USS New Jersey, to be built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Today, that ship is moored across the Delaware River at Camden, New Jersey as a Museum Ship. During the intervening nearly 50 years…
