File:Battleship Texas 1969.jpg
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English: USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.
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, and is presently a museum ship near Houston, Texas. Among the world's remaining battleships, Texas is notable for being the only remaining dreadnought battleship, though she is not the oldest surviving battleship; Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought battleship ordered in 1898, is older than Texas. She is also noteworthy for being one of only six remaining ships to have served in both World Wars.[16][A 1] Among US-built battleships, Texas is notable for her sizable number of firsts: the first US Navy vessel to house a permanently assigned contingent of US Marines, the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US ship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers (analog forerunners of today's computers), the first US battleship to launch an aircraft from a catapult on Turret 3,[17] one of the first to receive the CXAM-1 version of CXAM production radar in the US Navy,[A 2] the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship, and the first battleship declared to be a US National Historic Landmark. |
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Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/okchomeseller/11272974494/ |
Author | Bill Wilson |
Camera location | 29° 45′ 00.93″ N, 95° 04′ 54.63″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 29.750258; -95.081842 |
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Camera manufacturer | Minolta |
Camera model | SRT 101 |
Date and time of data generation | 07:05, 5 June 1969 |
Latitude | 29° 45′ 0.93″ N |
Longitude | 95° 4′ 54.63″ W |
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City shown | La Porte |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 10:59, 8 December 2013 |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 07:05, 5 June 1969 |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 54 |
DateTimeDigitized subseconds | 540 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.2.2 |
Date metadata was last modified | 04:59, 8 December 2013 |
Unique ID of original document | 623EA57CE60A0E03AAFF65E11929D656 |
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Province or state shown | Texas |
Country shown | United States |
Sublocation of city shown | Shoreacres |
IIM version | 4 |