{"id":12930,"date":"2017-06-19T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/can-battleship-texas-win-its-war-with-time-and-corrosion\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:15:00","slug":"can-battleship-texas-win-its-war-with-time-and-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=12930","title":{"rendered":"Can Battleship Texas Win its War with Time and Corrosion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt For decades, the USS Texas was one of the most feared battleships in the U.S. Navy. Armed with anti-aircraft guns during World War I, its crew kept German fleets from severing Allies&#8217; supply lines.<\/p>\n<p>It became the U.S. Atlantic Fleet&#8217;s flagship before World War II, then fired on Nazi defenses at Normandy before being transferred to the Pacific and providing gunfire support and anti-aircraft fire to the landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It was decommissioned in April, 1948.<\/p>\n<p><p>\nNow, the 103-year-old<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt For decades, the USS Texas was one of the most feared battleships in the U.S. Navy. Armed with anti-aircraft guns during World War I, its crew kept German fleets from severing Allies&#8217; supply lines. It became the U.S. Atlantic Fleet&#8217;s flagship before World War II, then fired on Nazi defenses at Normandy before being transferred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}