USS New Jersey BB-62 Scale Model Battleship

Item#: MBBNJ

MSRP Price: $1,695.00

Factory Direct Price: $1,295.00

Factory Direct Models bring back to life this famous Historic Military Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62 in the form of a Museum Quality Scale Model Ship. This USS New Jersey BB-62 Scale Model Battleship was hand crafted using the finest Philippine Mahogany and was sealed to last for generations. Working from our library of blueprints, reference materials and their Photographs Factory Direct Models master artisans created this Historic Battleship into a detailed Display Model.

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USS New Jersey (BB-62) History:

USS New Jersey (BB-62), also known as Big J or Black Dragon, is an Iowa class battleship. Among her class, she is notable for having earned the most battle stars for her combat actions, and for being the only one to have served a tour of duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

New Jersey was launched on December 7, 1942 by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Her first action as flagship was a bold two-day surface and air strike by her task force against the supposedly impregnable Japanese fleet base on Truk in the Carolines. She destroyed a trawler, and with other ships, sank destroyer Maikaze, as well as firing on an enemy plane which attacked her formation.

On May 17, 1951, New Jersey arrived from Japan off the coast of Korea. During her two tours of duty in Korean waters, she played the role of seaborne mobile artillery. On September 25, she sailed for her first tour of gunfire support duty along the Vietnamese coast. On September 30, she fired her first shots in battle in over sixteen years. Firing against Communist targets in and near the Demilitarized Zone, her big guns destroyed two gun positions and two supply areas.

On February 8, 1991, New Jersey was decommissioned at Bremerton, Washington. She arrived at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on November 11. Since then, she has been restored, opened and established as an educational museum and a tribute to the sailors who served aboard her. New Jersey opened as a museum and memorial in October 2001.