history · 25 January 1944 · 80 years ago
The newly operational battleship, USS New Jersey (Captain Carl F. Holden), joined Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman's TG58.3 (Group Three of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58) in time to participate in Operation Flintlock, the occupation of the Marshall Islands.
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