USS New Jersey (BB-62) 1955 Cruise Sweatshirt

USS New Jersey (BB-62) was an Iowa-class fast battleship, one of the most powerful warships ever built. Commissioned in 1943, she served through World War II, earning distinction in the Pacific Fleet. She was briefly decommissioned after World War II and recommissioned in 1950 to provide naval gunfire support during the Korean War, where her 16-inch guns proved devastating against shore fortifications and troop concentrations. The 1955 cruise took place during this Korean War-era reactivation, as New Jersey operated with the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets before her second decommissioning in 1956. This sweatshirt commemorates that period in the storied history of the last American battleship to fire her guns in combat.