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Aerial starboard bow view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) underway with the guided missile destroyer USS BENJAMIN STODDERT (DDG 22) to starboard. The crew of the Stoddert is involved in a wash down operation

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Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 D. Smith

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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14/04/1983
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Vice President George H. Bush reviews a Marine Corps honor guard and color guard during the recommissioning ceremony for the USS IOWA (BB 61). The Marines are from the battleship's Marine Detachment. Escorting the vice president are Captain Richard D. Benjamin, Commanding Officer of the detachment, and Captain Gerald E. Gneckow, IOWA commanding officer

A view from the forecastle of the Mark 7, 16-inch, 50-caliber guns and superstructure of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62). In the background is the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64)

Port bow view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) being towed into the Pacific Ocean by tugboats for sea trials

The guided missile destroyer USS JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG-16) leads a line of ships including, from foreground: the guided missile destroyer USS BENJAMIN STODDERT (DDG-22), the frigate USS ROBERT E. PEARY (FF-1073), the frigate USS SAMPLE (FF-1048), the destroyer USS MORTON (DD-948), the combat stores ship USS NIAGRA FALLS (AFS-3) and the ammunition ship USS NITRO (AE-23). The vessels are underway off the coast of San Francisco

An aerial port bow view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62), center, underway with six other ships of its task group

A 5-inch/38-caliber gun is fired off the port side of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) during firing exercises

A starboard bow view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) as its 16-inch guns are fired to port during tests on the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC) range

Stern view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) during sea trials

The battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) enters the upper level, east chamber of the Mira Flores Locks during a transit of the canal

Smoke rises from the target ship being fired on by the battleships USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) and USS MISSOURI (BB-63) during Fleet Exercise '89

Secretary of Navy John F. Lehman Jr. speaks at the recommissioning ceremony for the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62)

Port bow view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) ready for its recommissioning ceremony

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