About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 103. Chapters: USS City of Corpus Christi, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Nimitz, USS Texas, USS Alamo, USS Terrell County, USS Austin, USS Uvalde, USS Tom Green County, USS Thomas J. Gary, USS Wood County, USS San Antonio, USS Houston, USS Matagorda, USS Jefferson County, USS Blanco County, USS King County, USS Navasota, USS Marion County, USS Atascosa, USNS Harris County, USS Neches, USS Guadalupe, USS Armstrong County, USS Hansford, USS Calhoun County, USS Sabine, USS Galveston, USS Haskell, USS Hamilton County, USS Leon, USS Orange County, USS Dallas, USS Kent County, USS Bosque, USS Pecos, USS Starr, USS Sam Rayburn, USS Montgomery County, USS Dealey, USS Shelby, USS Lamar, USS Montague, USNS Huntsville, USS Fort Worth, USS Grimes, USS Burleson, USS LST-888, USNS Pecos, USS Dickens, USS Floyd County, USS Texan, USS Karnes, USNS Mission San Antonio, USS San Jacinto, USS Eastland, USS LST-849, USS Rio Grande, USS Dawson, USS Duval County, USS El Paso, USS Brazos, USS Presidio, USS Knox, USNS Shoshone, USS Hidalgo, USNS Maumee, USS Brownsville, USS Oscar Austin, USS Midland, USS Freestone, USS Tarrant, USS Cottle, USS Randall, USS Briscoe, USS Gonzalez, HMS Duckworth, USNS Guadalupe, USS LST-483, USS Collingsworth, USS Corpus Christi. Excerpt: 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 took on the role of escorting war convoys across the Atlantic, and she later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign a...
