USS Texas is the only dreadnaught remaining afloat. It is a WW1 ship. Her last war was WW2. Her sister was the battleship USS New York, which was sunk in the Pacific Ocean as a target, after WW2. The only US battleship to fight in Vietnam was the Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey.
The address of the Battleship Texas Foundation is: 3527 Battleground Rd, Laporte, TX 77055-6414
The Battleship had a crew of 954 officer and men.
The USS New Jersey, an Iowa class battleship, is the last warship to have fought as a traditional all gun battleship & the only battleship to have fought in the Vietnam War.
The USS New Jersey is the only Vietnam Veteran battleship. She fired nearly 6,000 sixteen inch shells in the Vietnam War and she is naval histories last battleship to have fought a war as a traditionally all gun battleship.
The battleship Texas is docked at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte, Texas, about 20 miles east of downtown Houston.
Battleship Texas The Lone Star Ship - 2001 was released on: USA: 20 June 2001
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Texas lost 3,415 men in the Vietnam War.
Was. USS Enterprise (CV-6) was re-cycled (scrapped) in 1959. The current most decorated USN warship is the Iowa Class battleship USS New Jersey. The New Jersey has the distinction of being the world's last battleship to conduct combat operations as a traditional battleship; all guns, no missiles. New Jersey fired nearly 6,000 16" shells during her tour on the gunline in Vietnam.
The battleship USS New Jersey, America's most decorated US warship & history's last all gun battleship to have fought a war.
Vietnam was occupied by Japan from '40 until '45. Of interest, is the Royal Navy Battleship HMS Prince of Wales (of fighting the German Bismarck battleship fame) and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were both sunk by land based Japanese bombers, which took off from airfields in Vietnam. For the first time in naval history, a battleship which was underway, and fighting back, was sunk by airpower alone (10 December 1941).