[fso301]

Nice picture but at 50 years old, that's like the US navy using pre-dreadnought battleships in WW-II.

USS Texas circa 1898

[Sasparilla]

The USS TEXAS fired 225 14 inch shells at Pointe du Hoc on D Day. This, out of 445 fired on June 6 and over 600 during the invasion.
I dont think our soldiers cared that the old girl was from 1898.