Battleship New Jersey taking aim at history

Good reading from today's paper,


.At the height of World War II, the battleship New Jersey was given a new mission: to protect U.S. aircraft carriers against Japanese suicide bomber attacks.

Equipped with an arsenal of firepower, 40mm quadruple antiaircraft guns, the warship steamed with American fleets in the South Pacific, firing rounds to shoot down incoming enemy aircraft. Years later, it would play a similar role during the Korean War.

Today, the whereabouts of only one of the 20 “Quad 40” Bofors gun mounts, an important part of the history of the most decorated battleship in U.S. history, are known. They were removed from the ship when it was retrofitted in the 1960s for service in Vietnam because they had become obsolete.
Battleship New Jersey taking aim at history