A D-Day fire-support call may have reached USS Texas by chance

In an uncertain recollection from a book whose title is not remembered, casualties left a junior officer trying to obtain fire support for his company. His call failed to reach the command ship but was picked up by a battleship, remembered tentatively as USS Texas. The ship had just completed another fire mission and turned its guns on the position holding up the company. The identification and details remain uncertain, although the story illustrates the value of a timely response to troops ashore. Texas also used flooding to increase gun range, following a practice associated here with World War I monitors and predreadnoughts.