Battleship Texas

Celebrating the legacy of the mighty USS Texas, the most powerful naval force of its time, Battleship Texas is the only surviving U.S. Navy vessel to have fought in both World Wars including Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day, Operation Detachment at Iwo Jima and Operation Iceberg at Okinawa. Turned into the first battleship memorial museum in the United States in 1948, Battleship Texas was commissioned as the flagship of the Texas Navy to commemorate the anniversary of Texas Independence. Permanently anchored on the Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel in 1983, Battleship Texas is now a charge of the Texas Parks and Wildlife on the site of the San Jacinto Battleground.

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