Texas Photographs | World War II Database

58 items in this album on 3 pages.


Texas making 15.151 knots during the 9th run of her standardization trials, 23 Oct 1913	Marine detachment of USS Texas posing at the No. 3 turret, 1914

Texas in drydock, circa 1916	Texas off New York City, circa 1919

Boxing match held on board battleship Texas during Battle Fleet maneuvers, off Panama, 1923	USS Texas in drydock, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, mid-1920s

Texas firing her main battery during gunnery practice, Feb 1928	Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams inspected Texas, Mar 1931

All three of the United States Navy’s aircraft carriers at the time, Langley, Saratoga, and Lexington, along with battleships and cruisers at anchor in Colon, Panama Canal Zone, roughly 1935.	Texas in the Gatun Locks of Panama Canal, en route to the US east coast, 21 Jun 1937

Texas on Navy Day, 27 Oct 1940	Texas in North Atlantic on convoy duty, summer 1941

Battleship USS Texas off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 15 Mar 1943	Battleship USS Texas in the Atlantic steaming from Casco Bay, Maine to New York, New York to assume duties in escorting convoys across the Atlantic, 1 Apr 1944.

USS Nevada and USS Texas in Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 14 May 1944	Battleship Texas firing at targets along the Normandy coast, Jun 1944

Shells fired from battleship Texas exploded near Vierville on the Normandy coast, Jun 1944	A heavy German coast artillery shell fell between Texas (background) and Arkansas (foreground) off Cherbourg, France, 25 Jun 1944

German and Italian prisoners of war from the Normandy campaign en route Britain on the battleship USS Texas, Jun 1944. Some are sitting due to seasickness. Note guard holding a Reising M50 submachinegun.	Texas in the Hawaii area, 6 Jan 1945