[narby]

I was a fan of the USS Texas when I lived in Houston, still on static display there today. It would have been cool to see it in action, delivering broadsides at Normandy (But it has 14 inchers, not 16 inch like the Iowa class).

A few weeks after D-Day, the Texas had its best fight, when it dueled with a large German gun emplacement (most of its other action was shelling places that didn't have the ability to hit back). The ship took a couple of hits, and it didn't take out the guns themselves, but it destroyed enough of the gun infrastructure that the Germans abandoned it the next day.

[pwatson]

You know I kind of figured I would get that size wrong, my dad will kick my butt, he hates it when I get facts off, I am sure he knows the correct size. I had not heard of that battle, I re-toured the Texas about 4 years ago, its a small ship by todays standards but I think they said its the last WW1 dreadnought left. My dad is 85 and lives in Richardson Texas and he and I talk Politics, He and George Bush were both Harken Oil boards members, and War alot, I am very lucky to have him around still.