United States Battleships, 1935-92 by William Garzke and Robert Dulin (revised edition) :
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page 218 : "Secretary Lehman and Congress were concerned about the 16-inch gunnery inaccuracy that the New Jersey had displayed off Beirut in 1982 (sic). There had been too much dispersion in the gunfire that silenced Syrian Artillery".
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page 236 : "The CNO indicated that the New Jersey's 16-inch fire had silenced the gun batteries that had been shelling Beirut. Still, her gun performance off Lebanon was much poorer than expected and led to the Iowa's intensive and comprehensive gunnery test program from 1984 to 1988".
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page 287 : "Gunnery research, conducted on board the Iowa from 1985-88, solved the problem of gunnery dispersion, a problem that the New Jersey experienced in Lebanon and Vietnam."
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