Historic battleship gun barrel rolling back to Camden
August 20, 2018
Carol Comengo. The Courier Post
CAMDEN -- Mighty World War II naval gun barrels that once fired from the deck of the battleship New Jersey are rolling by rail from Virginiia to new homes in the city, North Jersey and Philadelphia...
...One of the three barrels will return for permanent display to the battleship; it's orginal home and since 2001 the centerpiece of the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial on the Camden waterfront...
...U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., recently announced the Navy had approved separate donations of the three gun barrels, which were among the nine removed from the battleship New Jersey and replaced after its Korean War service 64 years ago.