It also featured a visit from a green-and-white food truck from Dietz & Watson, the Philadelphia deli meat firm. The truck ...

CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey, the country’s most decorated battleship, will take her ride down the Delaware River where she will end up in dry dock at a Philadelphia shipyard.

The Battleship New Jersey always flies the stars and stripes, but another flag commanded attention there recently. It was a Philadelphia Eagles banner, hanging beneath the ship’s big guns for a ...

Not sure who bestowed the World’s Greatest Battleship title upon the USS New Jersey, but it is the biggest and most decorated in Navy history. A veteran of WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam ...

Well, folks, here we are again. A new year full of promise and hope. Yes, I know, the news is full of talk about a new Congress, president and administration, and also a soon-to-be-considered ...

Last year the Navy Department rewarded that promise by giving him command of the U.S.S. New Jersey, which will become the world’s only operational battleship when it is recommissioned this April.

1775: Angelo Braschi is chosen as Pope Pius VI. 1804: New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. 1852: Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London admits its first patient ...

The Battleship North Carolina, a museum and National Historic Landmark, is in the running for USA TODAY 10Best Readers' ...

A National Historic Landmark docked in Wilmington could soon receive another honor. Battleship North Carolina is one of 20 finalists from across the country for USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice ...