Battleship New Jersey's First 1,000 Days

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In this episode we’re celebrating 1,000 videos on this channel by talking about the first 1,000 days of the ship’s history.

To participate in helping track the ship’s deck logs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jBMsbXrEnx14TnXEa_NqAuQ-ykR-RWv035PmRaluX9Y/edit?usp=sharing

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34 thoughts on “Battleship New Jersey's First 1,000 Days”

  1. Most important duty – keeping several thousand crew safe and well fed during those those 1000 days.
    To which end a couple of questions –
    How many meals were served over those 1000 days?
    and
    Do we know what the 1,000,000th meal served was?

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  3. Straddling a zig zagging Japanese destroyer, the IJN Nowaki, at 20 miles at 30 knots has to be one of the great shots of all time. I believe Admiral Spruance let the Nowaki go as a psy-op. Her captain was duty bound to report to the rest of his fleet that the Americans had two full sized battleships capable of keeping up with a fleeing 35 knot destroyer obliged to zig zag to evade 16 inch shells. It is too bad the Nowaki didn't survive Leyte Gulf. Her crew would have provided some interesting interviews recounting the Truk Escape.

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  5. Congratulations on 1000 videos, Ryan and team. You all are aces in my book, for running what's clearly (by such a ship's standards) an understaffed team, taking care of one of the grand old girls of the seas. Your tireless work and genuine wish to spread the knowledge and word of USS New Jersey has reached many people, and will reach many more. Times may be rough now, but it's all the more important to remember the past and teach it, because without education and without knowledge, we're nothing that can be called humans. I think you're all doing a very important task.

    So here's a cheer for 1000, and huzzah for 1000 more!

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  7. Congratulations and well done to you and your colleagues.

    This is a fantastic source of information, not to mention entertainment, on a subject about which I've read a lot of books over the past 40 years (I started pretty young).

    We are SO fortunate that the ship is preserved, that we have the technology to make videos available, but most of all we're lucky you and your colleagues make the effort to provide such wonderful content. I never imagined this would be possible when I started reading all sorts of military history works, especially naval, so many years ago.
    Thanks so much for all that all of you do.

    I can't say I've watched all 1,000 videos, but I think I've done perhaps a few hundred.
    Hmm, I might need to make watching them all a goal; 1 a day for 2.5 years ought to get me pretty close. 🤔😳🤣

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  9. I came upon your videos on YouTube a few months ago and they are excellent , bringing back many memories of my past working on RN. ships in the sort of spaces you make them about . Sadly , apart from HMS. Belfast we don't have any comparable 20th century ships preserved . I did once get a chance to walk round the upper deck of Iowa when she visited us in the 90s and it must be a never ending job to maintain . From your videos it looks like you are doing a remarkable job with USS. New Jersey . Thanks for making them .

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  29. With such delicate and tense developments within the eastern Europe block , I would feel a darn site safer in my bed at night if two of these frighteningly devastating vessels were to be re activated possibly with state of the art armoury but feel that just the very sight of these ships with the big guns pointed at a Russian platoon of soldiers would turn their green uniforms brown from the waist down . I dont get the same feeling of security with the carriers and paticulaly the farcicle story of RO9 Prince of Wales , still out of the water and a sitting duck if WW3 breaks out . I have it that the USS IOWA is the ship with the most hull life left intact and maybe the Navy will see that a recall to duty is essential for the big battleships

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  32. I know that it's the biggest of longshots, given the gulf of time, but if it can be done, then the boost in morale, at least amongst the history buffs, would be immense. It would center around having a piece of CVN-06 welded onto the BB-62, or mounted if it's just a shard so that the immense luck of that ship could permeate through New Jersey.

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