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U.S. EVALUATES BATTLE LESSONS IN MIDDLE EAST
By RICHARD HALLORAN, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES (NYT); Foreign Desk
February 25, 1984, Saturday
Late City Final Edition, Section 1, Page 1, Column 5, 1175 words
Military officers, starting to assess 18 months of experience in Lebanon, have found that shelling by 16-inch guns on the battleship New Jersey was far less effective than hoped, that a new device for spotting enemy artillery worked well and that the venerable C ration may be a thing...
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Beyond that, the officers said, were disappointments. At the top of the list were the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey. ''They scared the hell out of everybody,'' one officer said, ''but we don't think they hit much of military value.''
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