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| Keywords: USS Texas, the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship LCCN2014633244.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; The ship now a museum berthed near the San Jacinto Monument in LaPorte near Houston Texas was launched on May 18 1912 Soon after her commissioning Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the Tampico Incident and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941 Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa Texas was decommissioned in 1948 having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014633244 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/29000/29044a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 29044 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 29044 29 45 3144 0 N 95 5 3568 0 W alt 2_source exif_heading 27 93 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||