Ariel view of Texas

front of 2025.1002.30

front of 2025.1002.30

Name/Title

Ariel view of Texas

Entry/Object ID

2025.1002.30

Description

Cutout from a magazine collected by Howard Flood. Texas sails toward camera in aircraft on front. USS Arizona and other battleships on back.

Context

Battleship Texas largely escorted Allied ships across the Atlantic from January 1943 to April 22, 1944. She mainly sailed from New York to either the UK, Gibraltar, or Casablanca. Howard F. Flood Jr. enlisted in the Naval Reserves with parent permission on February 14, 1941, and went through basic training from July 5 to August 3. He went to additional schooling through September 3, 1941. His first assignment was on Battleship Texas.

Collection

Collection (Howard F. Flood Jr.), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Clipping, Magazine

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Clipping

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects