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The WORLD's only traditional all gunned battleship was the USS New Jersey, an Iowa class warship; in 1968 when she deployed to the gunline in Vietnam. New Jersey fired nearly 6,000 sixteen inch shells and 15,000 five inch shells at communist targets during her tour on the line.

In 1982, President Reagan activated all four Iowa class (to include the New Jersey) battlewagons and had them armed with CRUISE MISSILES, to supplement their guns.

Consequently, the US battleship USS New Jersey was the world's last battleship to fight a war as a pure gunned battleship (Vietnam 1968-1969).

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