The BIG guns
by jjsala

USS Texas (BB-35), otherwise known as The Battleship Texas is the second ship of the U.S. Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas. The ship was launched in 1912 and decommissioned in 1946 after seeing action in Mexican waters, World War I and World War II.

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