There are a couple of very interesting storylines to me about this photograph. First concerning Texas, when she arrived at NNY for her refit on August 3rd, she was wearing the very experimental modified MS-2 camouflage which was 5-D on her hull, 5-O on her upperworks up to 2’ above her #2 turret, everything above that was supposed to be 5-L but her already painted Standard Navy Gray #5 was substituted for 5-L.
Upon completion of her refit, she left NNY wearing MS-13, overall 5-H haze gray camouflage. A couple of months later she would receive her 1st version on MS-12 modified camo.
The second interesting storyline about this photo to me is the ship in the center of the pic. That is USS Chaumont AP-5. Milton Hurst would board her just after this photo was taken and he would sail her to Pearl Harbor. He would arrive at Pearl the day before Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving day, Milton Hurst would report back aboard the ship he left at the beginning of April, ‘41 for aviation schooling. Upon arrival at Pearl Harbor, Milton commented that the ship was no longer overall light gray like he left her, she was now dark gray with light gray tops. The ship that Milton was reporting back to was USS Arizona.
Looks like Ms.2 or Ms.12 after the Sep revision. TEXAS was at NYd Norfolk 3 Aug-7 Oct 1941.
Black and white videos can create some questions.
So here is a list of the paint schemes that the Texas BB-35 used.
Standard Navy Gray #5 1928-1941
Modified Measure 12 1942-1943
Measure 22 1943 -1944
Measure 31a-8b 1944-1945
Measure 21 1945-1948.
After 1948 the Texas became a state museum.
Hope this is of help.
I'm looking for some input. I'm building my trumpeter Texas, according to my research, during WWII she was painted in measure 21, navy blue overall and deck blue on horizontal surfaces (decks), but all the youtube videos I have seen of her she is a lighter gray above the boot topping?? videos are B&W of course, but the hull and upper super structure did not appear to be dark at all? anyway, any suggestions would be good I am going to cross my fingers and get the pontos detail up set for it, hope it works out ok
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