Inventory of the Texas Battleship Papers 11 Apr.-11 June 1948

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Inventory of the Texas Battleship Papers 11 Apr.-11 June 1948

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The second battleship to be named the Texas was christened on 18 May 1912, and was commissioned for service in the U.S. Navy on 12 March 1914. The USS Texas served in the Atlantic Fleet during World War I, and was present at the surrender of the German Imperial Fleet in 1918. In 1927, it was the flagship for the commander in chief of the United States Fleet. In 1940 and 1941, the ship was assigned to escort duty in the North Atlantic, and in 1942 it supported the Allied landings in North Africa. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the USS Texas was the flagship for the bombardment group supporting the Allied landings on Omaha Beach. In 1945, the battleship supported the landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. On 21 April 1948, the USS Texas was decommissioned, presented to the state of Texas, and recommissioned as the flagship of the Texas Navy, becoming the nation's first memorial battleship and a national historic landmark. The Battleship Texas Papers (11 Apr.-11 June 1948) consist of miscellaneous mementos, including programs, transcripts of speeches, newspaper clippings, memoranda, correspondence, and photographs collected from the events surrounding the mooring, decommissioning, and recommissioning in the Texas Navy of the Battleship Texas. Also included are photocopies on archival paper of all newspaper clippings and photographs found in the Texas Battleship papers. Present are transcripts of speeches given at the ceremony by Lloyd Gregory, Paul L. Wakefield, Col. G. A. Hill, Jr., Fred Harris, John G. Flowers, Jr., Rear Admiral L. F. Reifsnider, Captain Charles A. Baker, Oscar F. Holcombe, Jesse H. Jones, Mark Edwin Andrews, Beauford H. Jester, and Chester W. Nimitz. Included is a printed invitation to the acceptance ceremony and a keepsake entitled compiled by James M. Daniel. The keepsake was printed and issued by the San Jacinto Museum of History Association on the occasion of the permanent berthing of the U.S.S. Texas at the battleground. Also in the series is an of the visit of (entries unfilled) to the Battleship Texas, San Jacinto Battlegrounds. The Ships of the Texas Navy, Official Log

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