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.
Solenopsis invicta, the “Red Imported Fire Ant”, native to South America, has proven a tenacious and destructive pest in the United States, costing Americans billions of dollars every year. That is why, in the late 1950s, the United States embarked on an all out war against the six-legged menace.