Outside

 

 

That's the reflective pool outside the monument.

If you look in the  background you can see the top of the Battleship Texas.

In 1948, the Battleship TEXAS became the first battleship memorial museum in the U.S.

 

The TEXAS received the first commercial radar in the US Navy in 1939.

 

The TEXAS is the last of the battleships, patterned after HMS Dreadnought, that participated in World War (WW) I and II. She was launched on May 18, 1912 from Newport News, Virginia. When the USS TEXAS was commissioned on March 12,1914, she was the most powerful weapon in the world, the most complex product of an industrial nation just beginning to become a force in global events.

 

 

In 1941 while on "Neutrality Patrol" in the Atlantic, TEXAS was stalked unsuccessfully by the German submarine U-203

 

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