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Vintage U.S.S. Texas CGN-39 Color Photo Postcard
Virginia Class Nuclear Powered Guided Missile Cruiser
She was launched on 9 August 1975 and commissioned on 10 September 1977
She was initially designated a
guided missile destroyer leader, but was reclassified as a guided
missile cruiser and given the hull classification symbol CGN-39 on 30
June 1975
The maiden deployment of the
Texas was with the USS Nimitz Battle Group in the Mediterranean and
North Arabian Sea during the Iranian hostage crisis in support of
Operation Eagle Claw
She also served as Flagship for Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group One
The second deployment of the ship was once again with the Nimitz Battle Group operating in the Mediterranean Sea
Texas' third deployment was
with the USS Carl Vinson Battle Group, and included an around-the-world
cruise which allowed her to visit every inhabited continent except South
America and to sail all the oceans except the Arctic
In February 1991, Texas began
her sixth deployment, en route to the Arabian Sea. She served valiantly
during Operation Desert Storm as the ship for the anti-air warfare
commander of the Nimitz Battle Group.
Additionally,
she served as a mother-ship for minesweeping operations off the coast
of Kuwait, providing valuable logistic support for several minesweepers
Texas was placed in reserve
commission on 31 May 1993, then decommissioned and stricken from the
Naval Vessel Register on 16 July 1993
Texas entered the nuclear Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 1 October 1999
Unused vintage color photo postcard
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