America’s last surviving dreadnought to have served in both World War I and World War II, has been saved and secured a new ...

USS Texas took part in her first combat operations of the Second World War as part of Task Group 34.8 (TG 34.8) in support of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, and it was from ...

All that time in the water took its toll on the old battle wagon, and in June 2017, a six-by-eight-inch hole about 15 feet below the waterline opened and caused the USS Texas to list six degrees.

The USS Texas is shown being maneuvered into its berth at the San Jacinto Battleground in 1948. Plans to put it into dry berth 64 years later have now been shelved because of the cost.

The USS Texas has seen action in World War I and in both theaters during War War II, providing fire support for beach landings at Normandy, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The ship was decommissioned in 1948.