If you are interested in obtaining YOUR relatives Military Record you will find some very useful information below.

I have located this information via web site searching but I have not personally gone through the process to obtain my relatives Military Records so I only offer this as a possibility but not the only way to do so.

The Battleship Texas has some data from the WWII era but nothing prior to that. As for personnel records they have some Muster Logs showing the names of the crewmembers. However if you are trying to find out more details about your family member I would recommend you request a copy of their Military Records via the information below.

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If you have your family members service record # or their Social Security # 

then you can request their Military Records on-line at:

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/vetrecs/ 

If you wish to download the form you will need (SF-180) click here.

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If you do not have YOUR relatives Service Record # or their Social Security # then try the following:

The following is off the web site for the National Archives:

Old Military and Civil Branch, National Archives, 

700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20408

Telephone (202) 501-5385

Holds deck logs of individual ships through 1940. Officer personnel are often listed on the first page of each month's log for the 1880-1941 time period. A collection of monthly muster rolls listing enlisted personnel aboard individual ships from the 1880-1938 is bound in books. The Bureau of Ships records through 1940 and the Navy's Judge Advocate General investigative records, for the pre-World War II period, are also maintained in the Branch.

The National Archives has BB35 muster logs. The names are listed in alphabetical order.
(They were made every quarter). You can e-mail an order to inquire@nara.gov . In the past I have
sent directly to inquire@arch1.nara.gov  (the section that handles records prior to 1941).
There is a minimum cost of $10 and the data can be copied only onto microfilm (your local library may have a microfilm reader).

 Microfilm is about 50 cents a frame. An entire quarter will be about 30 pages. 

Possibly a relative can get just the pages with the last names starting with the first letter.

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For more details about the USS Texas BB35 click here....

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The information listed below came from the following web site:

http://www.archives.gov/facilities/mo/st_louis/military_personnel_records.html 

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National Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records

The following links are provided:

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If you are researching information about the USS Texas BB35 after 1941

there is another option from the National Archive's.

The Operational Archives Branch, the main repository of the U.S. Navy's operational history, maintains a select group of operational records, histories of naval commands, manuscripts, oral histories, biographies, and personal papers dealing with the twentieth century Navy, especially after 1941.

Location:

Third Floor of Building 57, Washington Navy Yard. Map of the Washington Navy Yard and Information on Visiting the Naval Historical Center

Hours: NOTICE: The Branch will be closed to researchers from 1 April through 28 February 2003 for reorganization of the storage facilities and preservation projects. Please call before making plans to visit the Archives.

Monday and Tuesday: 0900 - 1600 (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
Wednesday CLOSED
Thursday and Friday: 0900 - 1600 (9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
CLOSED: Weekends and Federal holidays

Phone: (202) 433-3224; Fax (202) 433-2833

Reference Policy:

Due to limited staffing, the Archives provides reference assistance, rather than conducting in-depth research, 

for patrons who visit or send a written inquiry.

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If your just doing research on the Battleship Texas I recommend the following contacts:

Barry Ward (Battleship Texas Manager) at:  Barry.Ward@tpwd.state.tx.us 

Chuck Moore at:  cfmoore@texas.net

Or the National Archive at:

Naval Archives Contact Information Mon-Sat 8:45 - 5:00 Tue. Thu. Fri. extended to 9:00 pm 

Pull records on the half hour from 9:30 am till 3:30 pm (Sandy Smith) 

Gibson Bell Smith Modern Military Records Unit National Archives 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740 Ph. 301-837-3002

 Sandy found information on BB35 in Record Group 19 Correspondence/Bureau of Ships 

He also recommended the: Still Pictures Branch 301-0539 

Possible source of update photographs Cartographic Section (Ships Plans) 301-837-3520 

Rebecca Livingston Old Navy Unit National Archives 8th & Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20408 Ph. 202-501-5385 

Navy Department Library Glen Helm 202-433-4132 

Reference: Sandy Smith Alex J. Daverede (AJ) will call - interested in WWII armament

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