Battleship New Jersey - an illustrated history

Hardcover 25x25cm, 320 pages. The author, a former crew member of the New Jersey, gives an operational history of the only U.S. battleship to participate in three wars and provides an inside perspective of warship life. This book provides excellent design details but also the living history of the ships crew and the changing roles and missions that kept her in service for four decades when most naval historians predicted the quick demise of the "Battlewagons" with the advent of the carrier. So much about this grand ship I never knew and chose the model because I witnessed the power of her armaments in Vietnam along the DMZ in 1967 and again off the coast of Lebanon. A classic ship with a proud history of service told in a complete tale. 9780853688105