World War I
During World War I, New Jersey made a major contribution to the expansion of the wartime Navy, training gunners and seamen recruits in Chesapeake Bay. After the Armistice she began the first of four voyages to France, from where she had brought home 5,000 members of the American Expeditionary Force by 9 June 1919. New Jersey was decommissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 6 August 1920, and was sunk along with Virginia off Cape Hatteras on 5 September 1923 in Army bomb tests conducted by Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film of this bombing was used as stock footage for many years, notably in the 1936 Three Stooges short Half Shot Shooters.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.”
—Alexander Blok (1880–1921)
“No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)