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 | 163k | Supplies being loaded onto Texas (BB-35). | Photographer: Frank Scherschel, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo i.d. courtesy of Travis Davis, Curatorial Assistant for Collections and Restoration, Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site. | |
 | 168k | Mess cook cutting cake in bakery shop aboard Texas (BB-35). The baker picture is not actually in the Bakery, but outside in the port Aircastle. Because of the size constraints of the Bakery, the bakers set the cooling racks in the Aircastle to cool bread or in this case corn bread. Quite a few of our veterans tell us about seeing guys wearing pea coats in the summer and swiping some bread. | Photographer: Frank Scherschel, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Travis Davis, Curatorial Assistant for Collections and Restoration, Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site. | |
 | 223k | Overhead view of US sailors manning the signal bridge of Texas (BB-35). Note the sailors below sparring in an improvised ring. On the Signal Bridge you can actually see Texas written on the life ring that is hanging on the splinter screen in the upper left hand corner of the picture. | Photographer: Frank Scherschel, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Travis Davis, Curatorial Assistant for Collections and Restoration, Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site. | |
 | 155k | Searchlight shining through fog from tower of Texas (BB-35) in 1942. The Main Mast is definitely that of Texas due to the configuration of the Search Light Platform in relation to the Movie Operating Platform (or so the 1942 Booklet of General Plans for New York (BB-34) calls it). In New York there is not a space between the Search Light Platform and the Movie Operating Platform like there was on Texas. | Photographer: Frank Scherschel, courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. Photo i.d. courtesy of Travis Davis, Curatorial Assistant for Collections and Restoration, Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site. | |
 | 42k | Colored b&w of Texas (BB-35). The original b&w is U.S. Navy & printed in the book 'Fighting Fleets' by R.S. Critchell, and H.H. Rimington. Copyright 1942 by Dodd, Mead, & Co, Inc. | Courtesy of Eric W. Dahlstrom. | |
 | 83k | Bow on view of Texas (BB-35) at the Norfolk Naval Yard, Portsmouth Virginia, 19 August 1942. | USN photo. | |
 | 80k | Starboard bow view of the Texas (BB-35) at the Norfolk Naval Yard, Portsmouth Virginia, 19 August 1942. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. | |
 | 25k | Starboard view showing her measure 12 (modified) camouflage off the Norfolk Naval Yard, Portsmouth Virginia, 19 August 1942. | USN photo. | |
 | 83k | Underway, 15 March 1943, all turrets are trained sharply to port. | USN photo. | |
 | 117k | Underway off Norfolk, Virginia, 15 March 1943, with her main battery gun turrets trained to port. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 80-G-63542, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 202k | Stern view of the Texas (BB-35), 15 March 1943. | USN photo serial # 4841-43, courtesy of Ed Zajkowski. | |
 | 235k | Starboard quarter view, 15 March 1943. | USN photo serial # 4840-43, courtesy of Ed Zajkowski. | |
 | 110k | Head on view, 15 March 1943. | USN photo serial # 4837-43 courtesy of Ed Zajkowski. | |
 | 85k | Final wartime appearance of the Texas (BB-35) as seen is after the summer of 1943 and before Jan 1944. The foremast SG antenna is not yet atop the foremast. The top of the foremast is lacking in antenna detail but the elevated SG platform is not present. Plane, deck and lightweight A.A. arrangement are easily seen in this photo. | Text contributed by Chuck Moore. USN photo. | |
 | 120k | Underway near Casco Bay, Maine, prior to 25 Jan 1944. On 25 Jan 1944, Texas (BB-35) entered Boston Navy Yard, where among other changes, the SC-1 radar antenna atop the foremast was removed and the SG antenna which is below the 3-tier fire control structure, was relocated atop the foremast. The date is after June 1943 for this is when the quad 40mm guns (among other guns) were installed, in Boston Navy Yard (1 - 30 June 1943). | Text contributed by Chuck Moore. USN photo. | |
 | 55k | Texas (BB-35) at anchor in the Clyde River, Scotland after escorting a troop convoy to the British Isles. A British escort carrier is in the background. The date is after 1943. Texas was in the Clyde in July 1942, Jan 1944 and Apr 1944. With the foremast SG being atop the fire control structure, the image is after Feb 1944, for it was in a Boston Navy Yard period of Jan - Feb 1944 that the SG antenna was relocated atop the foremast. | Text contributed by Chuck Moore. U.S. Navy Photograph, contributed by Mike Green, courtesy of Leeward Publications. | |
 | 110k | Texas (BB-35) as she appeared in April, 1944. Added light antiaircraft weapons are easily seen here. | USN photo. | |
 | 38k | Texas (BB-35) with OS2U on after catapult. Date should be late April 1944. Note that the forward and after portions of the A/C catapult have been dismounted from the #3 Turret. (The forward portions is the structure sitting on the port quarter deck.) These and the Kingfishers were landed in Belfast prior to Normandy invasion. Spotter pilots from the BB's and CA's flew Mustangs and Spitfires over the beach head.The dismounted catapult and A/C on the deck would make the probable location in the Irish Sea on the trip from the Clyde to Belfast. The Texas appears fueling an accompanying escort (fuel line hanging from boat crane in lower left) | Courtesy of Joe F. Powers. Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Chris Hoehn. | |
 | 79k | In Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland, 14 May 1944. Texas (BB-35) is at right. Photographed from Quincy (CA-71). | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # 80-G-367897, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 98k | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the crew of the Texas (BB-35) prior to the Normandy landing. Texas supported the Omaha Beach landings. | Photo courtesy of USN/USNI. | |
 | 91k | Navy corpsmen treat wounded U.S. Army Rangers aboard the Texas (BB-35). | Photo courtesy of USN/USNI. | |
 | 55k | Oil on canvas painting by the artist Randall Wilson entitled "Gunline Omaha". In support of the American landings at Utah and Omaha beaches, the Texas (BB-35) slugs it out with German heavy gun emplacements during the D-Day landings. | Text and drawing courtesy of naval-art.com | |
 | 81k | A heavy German coast artillery shell falls between Texas (BB-35), in the background, and Arkansas (BB-33), while the two battleships were engaging Battery Hamburg during the bombardment of Cherbourg, France, 25 June 1944. Photographed from Arkansas. | USNHC # 80-G-244210, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 45k | Sky watch on board the Texas(BB-35). | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 36k | Texas (BB-35) wearing the results of German gunnery during close-in fire support off Cherbourg, 26 June, 1944. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 41k | Shell splash from what might be a 240-millimeter armor-piercing shell lands near the Texas (BB-35) from German gunnery during close-in fire support off Cherbourg, 26 June, 1944. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 41k | The battleship Texas (BB-35) fires her main batteries in this painting by the artist Carl G.Evers. | USN photo courtesy Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 124k | Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for Camouflage Measure 31a, Design 8B intended for the battleships New York (BB-34) and Texas (BB-35). This plan, approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN, is dated 11 October 1944. It shows the ship's starboard side, exposed decks and superstructure ends. New York wore this pattern in late 1944 and early 1945. Texas was painted in it for a brief period during the final part of 1944. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 19-N-73641, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
 | 117k | Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for Camouflage Measure 31a, Design 8B intended for the battleships New York (BB-34) and Texas (BB-35). This plan, approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN, is dated 11 October 1944. It shows the ship's port side, exposed decks and superstructure ends. New York wore this pattern in late 1944 and early 1945. Texas was painted in it for a brief period during the final part of 1944. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 19-N-73640, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
 | 60k | Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant, USN (left)and Captain Charles A. Baker, USN, Commanding Officer, Texas (BB-35). On board Texas with a German 240mm (9.4") dud shell that hit the ship during the bombardment of Battery "Hamburg", east of Cherbourg, France, on 25 June 1944. Photographed while Texas was undergoing overhaul at the New York Navy Yard on 12 October 1944. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, 80-G-46961, now in the collections of the National Archives courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
 | 1.1mk | The battleship Texas (BB-35) all dressed up in Camouflage Measure 31a, Design 8B in this painting by the artist Carl G.Evers. | USN photo courtesy Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 86k | Texas (BB-35) underway off the Maine coast (43-40N; 70-03W), 1 November 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 31a, Design 8B. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 80-G-289714, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. | |
 | 49k | Feb, 1945 at Iwo Jima, an OS2U Kingfisher returns home while another OS2U is mounted on the turret catapult. | USN photo. | |
 | 99k | Oil on canvas print by the artist Tom Freeman entitled "The Pacific Lone Star". This painting depicts the Texas (BB-35) bombarding Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945. | Photo and text courtesy of oldgloryprints.com | |
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85k | Texas (BB-35) underway off Iwo Jima during the landings there in February 1945. LSM-266 is in the right background. Photographed from Nevada (BB-36). | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # 80-G-303866. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 77k | An OS2U Kingfisher scout plane is seen before launch atop the middle turret while at Iwo Jima, Feb 1945. | USN photo. | |
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72k | Texas (BB-35) recovers a Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane in a light rain at 1700 Hrs. on 16 February 1945, the first day of the Iwo Jima pre-invasion bombardment. The OS2U's radioman is riding the wing after hooking the plane to the recovery crane. Note details of the crane, aircraft recovery mat and net, 40mm quad gun mounting and the plane's color scheme and markings. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # 80-G-309140. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 368k | Even Texas (BB-35) needs to drink oil. The following four photos show the view from up above as seen from Ltjg Lloyd LaVack's camera. He was an Engineer Officer on Taluga (AO-62). In this view the battleship's crew is hauling the refueling hoses on board Texas on 15 April 1945. | LaVack picture courtesy of Tommy Trampp. | |
 | 253k | View amidships of the oiler Taluga (AO-62) & Texas (BB-35) as viewed from the Main Mast on 15 April 1945. | LaVack picture courtesy of Tommy Trampp. Photo added 03/19/10. | |
 | 303k | The oiler Taluga (AO-62) as seen from Texas (BB-35) Main Mast on 15 April 1945. | LaVack picture courtesy of Tommy Trampp. Photo added 03/19/10. | |
 | 242k | The stern portions of the oiler Taluga (AO-62) & Texas (BB-35) as viewed from the Main Mast on 15 April 1945. | LaVack picture courtesy of Tommy Trampp. Photo added 03/19/10. | |
 | 135k | Japanese Kamikaze pilot (L, between 2 black puffs, just above waterline) flying through hail of machine gun & antiaircraft fire from the battleship Texas (BB-35), which succeeded in downing the plane. | Photo courtesy of time.com. via / images.google.com & Life. | |
 | 83k | A quad 40mm Bofors crew, note the life raft stowage. Circa 1945. | USN photo. | |
 | 521k | The Texas (BB-35) steams into the port of Los Angeles, California, sometime in mid October 1945. Over 5 ships brought 9,000 soldiers back from the Pacific | Photo courtesy of David Buell. | |
 | 89k | The battleship Texas (BB-35) is shown leaving Norfolk Naval Shipyard in March 1948 to begin its journey to the state of Texas, where it was presented as a memorial. The old Norfolk skyline and the Norfolk-Portsmouth ferry are also visible in the background. | U.S. Navy Photograph from nnsy1.navy.mil contributed by Mike Green. | |
 | 80k | Texas (BB-35) being moved from the mothball fleet by tugs for her final move to San Jacinto, Texas. Texas was towed to San Jacinto State Park in Texas where she was decommissioned on 21 April 1948 and turned over to the state of Texas to serve as a permanent memorial. | U.S. Navy Photograph, contributed by Mike Green, courtesy of Leeward Publications. | |
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