My late uncle was a D-Day vet, first wave at Omaha beach. In the 1970’s I was reading a book on the history of the US Navy in WWII. He was visiting and sitting next to me on the couch and a picture of the Texas at D-Day was in the book and he glanced over and said what are you reading and then said I know that ship. He said that is the Texas, she was at D-Day, I went by her in a landing craft and she was close at one point dueling with German shore batteries. Pretty cool looking back on that discussion.
Most of the battleships at D-Day engaged shore batteries - but Texas almost went ashore with the troops.
At one point, troops were pinned down on Omaha Beach and were unable to get off the shingle. Several destroyers closed in to the beach to be able to fire their 5”/38 guns in direct line of sight support for the infantry, so close that they almost grounded. In an unprecedented move, Texas followed the destroyers in. She closed from her firing station 12,000 yards off the nominal shore to within 3000 yards of the water’s edge, inside point blank range even for the battleship’s antiaircraft guns, with only inches of water under her keel. Texas then went to maximum rate fire with pretty much everything she had, directly firing on machine gun emplacements, sniper positions, minefields, individual enemy soldiers, suspicious trees and even bushes - and not incidentally totally clearing western exit D-1 on Omaha to give the troops an exit by hitting everything that even looked like it might be a problem with a 14” shell.
Some historians note that without Battleship Texas, Omaha might have been a failed landing, or at least the butcher’s bill would have been much, much higher. Many of the prepared German anti-infantry defensive positions infantry were actually reasonably resistant to 5” fire - but not against 14” fire, delivered inside point blank range and with immediate follow up as fast as the crew could load them.