USS New Jersey BB-62 Patch — Iowa-Class Battleship Embroidered Patch
Firepower for Freedom — the most decorated battleship in U.S. Navy history.
USS New Jersey (BB-62) is the most decorated battleship in United States Navy history, earning more battle stars and campaign ribbons than any other battleship to serve in the American fleet. An Iowa-class battleship commissioned in 1943, New Jersey saw combat in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Lebanon crisis — an extraordinary four-conflict career that spans the entire second half of the 20th century. She is now preserved as a museum ship in Camden, New Jersey.
USS New Jersey's motto "Firepower for Freedom" encapsulates her legendary career. During World War II, she served as Admiral Halsey's flagship and bombarded targets across the Pacific. In the Korean War, her 16-inch guns devastated North Korean positions along the coast. During the Vietnam War, New Jersey was the only battleship reactivated for the conflict, providing unmatched naval gunfire support to troops ashore. Recommissioned again in 1982, she fired her guns in anger one final time during the Lebanon crisis in 1983-84, bombarding Syrian positions in the Bekaa Valley. No other American battleship can match New Jersey's record of sustained combat across four different wars.
This patch honors the most battle-tested battleship in American history.
Perfect For: USS New Jersey (BB-62) veterans and descendants, battleship history enthusiasts, four-war veterans, and Iowa-class warship collectors.
Firepower for Freedom — BB-62.