By early 1945, the Texas arrived in the Pacific to continue her service and aid in one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Codenamed Operation Detachment, Texas arrived just in time to support the landing on Iwo Jima.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.