At this time, preparations were underway for the invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch) and Texas was assigned to provide support. She arrived at the beaches on the morning of 8 November but did not provide a pre-invasion bombardment or even provide support when the landings were underway. But instead, for the next week she only attacked when the Army called in for direct fire support. With the the success of Operation Torch, she departed the African coast on 16 November and returned to her convoy escort role which she continued to do in 1943.

In late April 1944, Texas was again preparing to support amphibous landings, this time the invasion of Europe in June 1944. The training lasted for about a month and she arrived at Normandy on the night of 5/6 June. During the invasion, Texas, along with the battleship Arkansas, was to provide fire support at Omaha Beach, while Nevada was at Utah Beach. On D-Day (6 June 1944), she was stationed about 12,000 yards off Point du Hoc and commenced firing at 0650. By midday, she was stationed about 3000 yards offshore in order to target specific locations. She continued to support the troops until leaving to rearm in Plymouth, England, on 8 June. She returned off the beaches on 11 June and once again continued to provide support until 15 June when the fighting moved too far inland for her main guns to reach.

With this job done, the battleships moved off Cherbourg, France, where Texas engaged German shore batteries on 25 June 1944. The shore batteries put up a resisting fight though - they soon returned fire on the attacking battleships. By about 1230 the shore batteries were straddling Texas and at 1316 her luck run out. A 280mm shell hit her fire control tower and wounded everyone on the navigation bridge and killed the helmsman. Later in the day, a 240mm shell punctured her port bow but luckily failed to detonate. In spite of the two hits taken, she continued to attack the coast until 1600 when she disengaged. The German shore batteries straddled the Texas over 65 times in the afternoon but managed to hit only those two times.

Texas again returned to Plymouth but this time to repair the damage sustained from the Cherbourg engagement. Once this was complete, she again prepared to provide amphibious assault support. This time the mission was to support the invasion of southern France but she only provided support for two days and withdrew on 16 August. By mid-Septmeber she was at New York for a repair/refit period. By this time, there was little need for battleships in the Atlantic so she set sail in November for the Pacific via the Panama Canal. After a short stopover at Long Beach, California, she sailed to Pearl Harbor where she operated for about a month before moving on to Ulithi Atoll.

The next major engagement was to provide bombardment and support for the landings at Iwo Jima. After leaving Ulithi on 16 February 1945, she prepared for the invasion and arrived at Iwo Jima on 16 February. For three days prior to the landings she bombarded the Japanese fortifications and once the Marines landed on 19 February she provided direct fire support for the next two weeks. In late February she departed Iwo Jima early to return to Ulithi again to prepare for the invasion of Okinawa.

As a part of Task Force 54, she departed Ulithi on 21 March and five days later she began the pre-landing bombardment. The bombarding continued for the next six days until the landings on 1 April. For the next two months, she provided fire support for the troops at Okinawa. Although there was a large number of kamikaze aircraft during the operation, none were successful in hitting Texas although she was able to claim one kamikaze kill and three assists. By late May, she concluded her duty at Okinawa and sailed to Leyte Gulf in the Philippines where she remained until the war ended on 15 August.

With her career essentially at an end, Texas transported troops back to the US throughout the remainder of 1945 among other assignments. In 1948 she was towed to San Jacinto Park near Houston, Texas, and became a museum/memorial where she still remains today as the only surviving 'old' battleship. She was awarded five battle stars for her service in World War II.

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