Battleship Shells N. Viet
Today: Special Fall Fashion Section -SEE TABLOID INSERT Sunny, Pleasant Sunny and pleasant today. THEMILY HOME Fair and less cool tonight. Bed Bank, Freehold Sunny and mild again tomor- 1 T tow. Long Branch J FINAL (See Details FaBs J) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 66 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1968 TEN CENTS U.S.-S. New Jersey's Back in Action Battleship Shells N. Viet SAIGON (AP) — The New The battleship hurled her reinforced concrete, slammed spotter aircraft were unable to frontier, including Con Thien, On her first day in action the Jersey, the first American bat- 2,700 - pound missiles into the Into the positions. see targets. Gin Linn, and Dong Ha, head- New Jersey fired 29 rounds of tleship to see action since the enemy positions from its bat- A Navy spokesman said that Apparently the New Jersey's quarters of the U.S. 3rd Ma-2,7000 • pound shells from her Korean War, entered the Viet- tle station in the Tonkin Gulf. on her second mission of the chief mission will be to tpy rine Division and a vital opera- 16-inch guns and 45 rounds nam conflict today by bom- Weapons Sites Destroyed day, the New Jersey destroyed to knock out heavily fortified tional base for the DMZ. of smaller shells from her 5- inch guns into targets eight barding North Vetnamese po- During her first mission, an an enemy artillery position and North Vietnamese gun em- The DMZ is 37 miles long, three bunkers and scattered placements along the demili- but most of (he enemy's artil- miles inland.
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