Name/Title
John M. Inghram UniformEntry/Object ID
NavyUniform2022.19Description
John Millard Inghram
SN: 6239470
Water Tender
Enlisted: October 8,1942
USS Texas (Museum Ship)
Received:April 13, 1943
Transferred: Unkown
listed on the muster report available November 1945
About the Ship:
(Courtesy of the Naval History and Heritage Command)
During 1937-39, Texas kept busy training the Navy's officers and men. When the Second World War began in September 1939, she joined other Atlantic Squadron ships in maintaining a Neutrality Patrol, an activity that became increasingly warlike when the U.S. Navy began convoying western Atlantic shiping in 1941. The next year, with the Nation now formally at war, Texas escorted troops and supplies to Panama, West Africa and the British Isles. A change in mission took place in October and November 1942, when she provided heavy gunfire support during the invasion of North Africa. Texas continued her Atlantic convoy escort duties through 1943 and beyond. In April 1944 she began preparations for the Normandy landings, which began on 6 June 1944, with Texas' 14-inch and 5-inch guns firing on German positions ashore for several days. On 25 June, she participated in a bombardment of Cherbourg, France, during which she was hit twice by enemy coastal artillery fire. Her heavy guns were again active in August, this time in the Mediterranean Sea in support of landings in Southern France.
After an overhaul, Texas went to the Pacific, arriving in the war zone in time to take part in the February 1945 Iwo Jima invasion. From late March to late May, she operated off Okinawa, firing her guns against Japanese positions and helping to fight off suicide plane attacks. Texas was preparing for the invasion of Japan when the war ended in August 1945. She left the Western Pacific in late September and spent the next three months transporting veterans home. Returning to the Atlantic coast in February 1946, Texas was inactive until April 1948, when she was placed out of commission and turned over to the State of Texas. She has been maintained as a memorial at San Jacinto ever since.Label/Inscription/Signature
Name handwritten in various locationsParts
2x ribbon bars, hat, 2x white pants, 1x white jumper, 1x dress jumperProvenance
Notes
Established by name vs muster logsCreate Date
August 15, 2022Update Date
November 22, 2022
