I have toured the USS Texas more times than I can count over the years since 1978. We would take the kids and make a day of it, strolling the sea walk, going to Guidos and window shopping on the Strand. Thank you History Guy!

I've been to the USS Texas twice. It's an amazing machine and you can almost feel the spirits of those who served on it's decks when you visit. Thanks for supporting the effort to maintain this piece of American history.

Used to take my now adult kids (one at a time, of course) to the Texas on the back of the Honda every couple of years when they were young. Became sort of a tradition. On one of these, my son and I were two decks down when we came upon a tour group which had two tour guides. My son was asking me all sorts of questions about the area we were in, and one of the guides overheard him, broke off from the group, and asked my son and me if we'd like to see the lower decks. So we spent the next couple of hours climbing down step ladders, and stepping over various equipment being used to maintain the lower decks, eventually ending up in the emergency steering room deep down in the stern. My 30-something son and I still talk about it to this day. What a great thing for that guide to do.

I'm 61 years old as I write this comment. I have visited BB-35 so many times since the age of 3 that I have lost count. I've lived on board with Cub Scout and Boy Scout camping trips twice during the early years of the current millennium. USS Texas has always been a part of me and I know many of her interior spaces as well or better than the sailors who sailed her around the world. To Lance, a HUGE THANK YOU for once again recounting history that features this great lady!

Glad you've found USS Texas so interesting. She is unique and her stories deserve to be told.

Really hope they can continue to maintain the Texas. It such a storied and unique piece of living history.

Hopefully all goes well with USS Texas’ restoration!

I can't fathom sitting on the beach on my island and seeing the Texas coming into port! Awesome piece of history sir. Cheers from Galveston

I worked with a World War II Marine Vet and he told me about the USS Texas at Iwo Jima. The Texas, (as he fondly call the New York-class battleship) provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima. He was so proud to look out on the horizon and knew she was there. He told me they had to call for support several times and he could see the ship fire and not hear the blast until later. Then the blast of the shell when it came in made the island shack like an earthquake.

Thank you for another USS Texas video and thank you for elevating the restoration effort! So much engineering and technology history on that ship and we want the next generations to walk her decks in awe for a long time.

Can never get enough battleship storys

Thank you again for bringing the plight of the Battleship Texas to people's attention. I hope that the Texas can be restored soon.

Warren Zevon wrote a wonderful song about this incident called Veracruz. “I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns I heard Maria crying Late last night I heard the news That Veracruz was dying” - Warren Zevon

Future General George Patton was a junior officer during General Pershing's foray into Mexico seeking Pancho Villa's forces.

Teddy Roosevelt:I speak softly and carry a big stick. Woodrow Wilson: Well I speak LOOOUUUD! And I carry an even BIIIIGGGER stick!

Thanks for this excellent recitation of the early history of the USS Texas, and her first foreign engagement!

Now I always look forward to your new snippets. Please keep it up! And thanks!

THG your videos are so refreshing. Just history, no hype, no drama, no aliens. History told by a great presenter. If my teachers back in the day would of taught with as much passion as you talk about history no matter the subject, I would have paid more attention instead cutting class to go smoke pot and surf.

That Admiral Cat is hilarious.

"Rear Admiral Henry Mayo...was offended..." Some things never change.

Very informative as always. So nice to see another kitty in your arms again 💕

Great vlog as always!

Thank you History Guy for another wonderful trip into the past !

Hi THG. You always say " if you enjoyed. " I always enjoy & learn a lot from you, as your enthusiasm & knowledge, always comes out in your presentations. And yes, I have subscribed.

Love the USS Texas videos. Also nice to get some History Cat appearances

Hooray again for History 🐈! Another well told episode.

You always find the good stuff. Thank you.

Keep up the Great work, History Guy. You Sir are one of the Last hopes of teaching what is no long taught in the class rooms anymore. Thank you

Good Morning THG and Happy Friday

I brought my children to the San Jacinto Battleground state park on a regular basis in the 90s. We always ate lunch at a concrete picnic table on her starboard side. Thank you for helping to preserve that battle hardened beauty History Guy.

I'm definitely receiving a college level history course from watch your channel Mr. History Guy.🤗

Yeah, another amazing history lesson!

Thank you, History Guy

Just visited the USS Texas a couple of weeks ago and she is sorely in need of repair. I wish tours were still being allowed. Thank you THG for another great video.

As always, thank you so very much for your video.

Always interesting. Thanks!

Great story. Thank you, History Guy!

It's bittersweet to watch how quickly you had to change from being happy to personally respond to comments to now helping to feed the algorithm. I know once you get big enough it's impossible to address every comment that comes through. I just miss hearing it at the end.

Great information!!

The Texas is definitely time well spent and interesting look into the past! Thanks HG!

Love it when you talk about the Battleship Texas let last of her kind as a native Texan it's great to hear that hear her history

4:37 what a fricken CUTE picture! Love the stories! Keep it up, HG!

I love The Texas and will donate for her preservation.

That was enjoyable Professor! Thanks!

Thank you for the lesson. Spending some time in Camp Wood, Texas. Charles Lindburgh along with another pilot landed here while making a transcontinental journey.

Good afternoon THG from UK

The Texas was the most powerful battleship, in 1914. But by early 1915, the British Queen Elizabeth class battleships (including HMS Warspite), with 15" guns were commissioned.

Your research sir is superlative. Outstanding episode. Knowing history brings the present in ever clearer perspective.

I really hope you get a network sponsor and do a whole series and get the resources to go all out with your passion for history

I always enjoy your history, thank you.

excellent as usual and alot of unknown fact at tell us about. Thanks

In the late eighties I was stationed on the USS Texas. Coming back from a long cruise I got two weeks leave upon arrival in the Bay Area and I planned to drive straight to Jacksonville Florida. As I was coming into the El Paso area I needed gas a a quick bite. I pulled in to a mom/pop station and ordered something to go as I was in a hurry when an older gentlemen noticed my USS Texas cap and started talking to me about his time working on the BB-35. Although I was in a hurry I listened to him telling me about the ship before WW2 and was like a step back in time. Great to listen to the older folks.

Like your kitty. Blessings to the families of those we lost yesterday.

Thank you for doing videos on the USS Texas. My grandfather served on it in World War 2. He was only 14 years old when he joined the navy.

I would like to see an episode about the USS SICILY.

Always learning with you. Thanks a bunch! 😊

Is that History Guy Corleone there at the end with his cat? He's gonna make the viewers an offer they can't refuse. Excellent episode!

Thank you, I found this very interesting. Oddly both sides of my family have connections to the Texas. My step grandfather served on her just before WW I as a cook. When my father in law passed we found a photo album. He had served in the South Pacific during WWII in the Navy as a store keeper and replenished ships as they came back. As I was looking through the album I came a cross a series of photos of what looked like an early battle ship. The clock range finder on the mast gave me a clue in might be the Texas. As the ship passed my father in law took a whole series of photos. The last one was of the stern and across it was "Texas." I don't know where he took the photos, but I suspect it might have been Subic Bay. I've always loved the battle ships. When I was in the Navy the ship I was on was in the yards in Bremerton, WA. The New Jersey pulled next to us as a cruse to Vietnam. It was good to see her alive and well. I also saw the Missouri in moth balls just a few miles up the road. Years later during Desert Storm I saw her again in Bahrain and bought a ball cap in the ships store.

ahh Wilson the gift that keeps on giving a century later... one of the most overrated presidents the US ever had the misfortune to suffer under

Wilson was a garbage POTUS but at least he went to Congress for permission to engage in a minor military action.

Good stuff, thanks.

Excellent as always :) ps love the cat, Might it possibly be a "hisstorian" too?

Elements that make up my favorite THG videos: 1. Naval histories, especially involving the US Navy, and 2. Cameo appearances by any of The History Cats

My El Paso high school has a Civil War union cannon as a symbol of our school and chosen name, The Eastwood HS Troopers. That cannon is nicked named The Blue Whistler by union troops of it's day due to an odd quirk of producing a whistling sound when fired. The day before Pancho Villa launched a raid on the Mexican garrison in Juarez to further rebel goals in northern Mexico against President Huerta, Villa stole the Blue Whistler during the night from the El Paso downtown plaza. It had served as the focal point for old reenactments of civil war battle and would be fired to mark such occasions and others. The cannon sat next to an alligator pond in a shaded park where folks often collected each day to socialize. In the ensuing battle American citizens watched from low hills on the US side of the Rio Grande as the battle proceeded, using Whistler and a smaller German howitzer. The garrison was large and put under siege, but the key to winning was the garrison water supply, stored in a large tank. Pancho wanted the tank destroyed so that Huerta's troops and horses had no water under the hot summer sun and it was the Blue Whistler that struck the blows and won the siege. Then Villa proudly thanked the El Paso citizens for 'helping' with the 'loan' of the plaza cannon and marched it back into the plaza to much cheering. All in all, a great day. That day goes mostly unremembered now, but for those of us who love history, especially west Texas history we remember. El Paso is the oldest settlement area in the US, starting thousands of years ago with primitive men in caves as can be seen at Hueco Tanks States Park, then as a Pueblo area for hundreds of years, then as a more modern Indian tribal location, the Tigua tribe and then as a location for the calvary post, Ft Bliss. Today it's a major US city of about one million on the US side, facing Juarez on the Mexican side with over two million people. That is barely a reference to a city and area with more history than is easily believable. The battleship Texas is a tremendous thing to behold in person. Come see Texas. We Eastwood Troopers are proud of our namesake, just as Texans are very proud of our Alamo, Battleship Texas and more. Thank you THG for visiting us and supporting the Texas restoration of the greatest old battleship.

Thank you so much for doing these videos on the USS Texas and making it known that she needs support. From a native Texas, thank you!

@ 12:03 love your calico. She's a sweetheart. Great video as always.

Thanks!

great episode! You might want to do an episode on the 5 Sullivan brothers who were all killed on the USS Juneau and their namesake the USS Sullivans which is also looking to get help restoring and repairing the destroyer

Very enlightening.

You gotta do one on the Texas “horse marines.” Several mounted Texas rangers who ended up capturing several Mexican ships with no naval support.

I love the news paper reels it's like I'm actually seeing the news reports unfold and the situation escalate.

I had this going in the background while working. Then i look down and KITTY.

Thanks Professor History Guy! ✝️🇺🇸✝️

Thank you. Have always considered myself a history buff. However, this is piece of history I had little awareness. Muchas Gracias. J

Thank you,,, I had given up history,,, you have revised my interests!!!!! Hats off to you kind sir,,,,, your a gentleman & scholar, wish I could shake your hand

Another interesting bit of History we never learned about. THANK YOU BTW What is the history cat's name?

A couple of interesting facts. The Battleship Texas is one of the last ships in existence to serve in both World Wars, and it was the first battleship to launch an aircraft off of it.

I mentioned this incident in an essay a while back about the cause of the US entry into WWI, right alongside the Black Tom Explosion - which I learned about through your videos! Very cool to see a video on this!

Spent a night on the (museum-ed) battleship Texas with my son’s Tiger Cub scout den around 2003. They were struggling with restoration / maintenance then as now.

Loved the cat. Nice touch.

I wish here in Britain we had preserved some of our historical war ships!

I really enjoyed this

You should assemble a playlist of all videos involving the USS Texas - there have been several, some of which she played a huge role in, others were historic events she merely witnessed, but there's certainly a theme of history through the eyes (or portholes) of that specific ship.

Sure never heard any of this in my history classes growing up! Thanks, History Guy. Lived in Scum City for 35 long years and visited the Texas many times. Hope she can survive.

thanks

I love your themes about the ties and sometimes raptures between US and Mexico

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Another fascinating episode, but I missed something. When did the new cat show up?

Just another example of how Wilson was one of the five worst presidents of all time.

Well, naval history and international affairs are interesting, but the bonus is the kitty. Nothing like a warm, purring cat to keep you company no matter what history lesson you are giving.

Looking forward to your future coverage of the Texas after she's repaired 😀

History Guy, thanks for another good video on U.S.S. TEXAS. She is one of my favorite battleships. By the way, is that a new cat 😺 you have?

Always enjoy your videos on history, but the one for the USS Texas are the bet we need all the help we can get to save her God bless you and stay safe

I saw you at Yorktown pub!!! I was the guy with the Langley it guy

good to see General Catus join you in this video.

Hey! Any man to own and cuddle his cat in such gentle fashion must be a GOOD ONE! Bravo ! 🐱

Speaking as a Scot, when we were taught about the US entry into the Great War, the Zimmerman telegrams were not given much importance, compared to the Kaiser's threat to re-start unrestricted U-Boat action. However, having seen the video, I realise that there should be a greater emphasis put on the Zimmerman telegrams.

Hey History Guy 👦, Tampico is a Sunny Delight like fruit drink 🍸

Fun fact. Among the marines that landed to "seek redress" was ensign Willis Lee (later the adm that commanded US battleships at the second naval battle of Guadalcanal, and the fast battleships at the Philippine sea and Leyte Gulf) being a crack shot he set up a chair in the open and took out any sniper that fired on them.

I would love to see a video on the USS Liberty or the Lavon Affair