In recent years, the city of Camden, New Jersey, has seen a significant decline in violent crime and has undergone a momentous redevelopment effort. While it’ll likely never be known for tourism, Camden’s waterfront has three notable attractions including an outdoor amphitheater, an aquarium, and best of all for the history buff, the USS New Jersey, one of the largest World War II battleships to be preserved as a museum ship.
Known as the “Big J” or “Black Dragon,” she was the most decorated battleship to have served in the U.S. Navy and is among the largest warships ever built.
HISTORY OF THE BIG J
Well before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy saw the clouds of war were on the horizon and that there’d be a need for a “fast battleship” that
