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The shells from the New Jersey landed in the center of the wake created by the Lewis Hancock. Those guns were very accurate. They could have blown us out of the water with one salvo. Later when I served aboard the New Jersey on special assignment, I, like many others, saw much use ...
Arthur W. Radford returned to the waters off Beirut on 18 September 1983 to assume duty as ready gunfire support ship. She conducted gunfire support missions against forces threatening the peacekeeping force on 21 and 22 September until relieved on station by the battleship New Jersey (BB-62) ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, the new Israeli Prime Minister has now had an up-close-and-personal chance to take the measure of our new president and has already thumbed his nose at Barack Obama's plea for a halt in illegal construction of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. The Israelis s...