There a number of WW II battleships still around.
Yeah, but Texas isn’t just a WW2 battleship - she’s special.
She is:
The last surviving battleship on the planet to have served in both WW1 and WW2.
The last surviving dreadnought type battleship on the planet.
The only battleship in history to have closed to the beach close enough that there were only inches of water under her hull to duel with *machine gun* emplacements in support of infantry landings.
The first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, control her fire with directors and rangekeepers, to carry and launch aircraft and among the first to receive radar.