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Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Matagorda Island Air Force Base (/ ˈ m æ t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ə / ⓘ [1]) is a closed military airfield on the north end of Matagorda Island, northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. It was closed by the United States Air Force in 1975.
Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas. OCLC 71006954, 29991467; Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now – Vol. 2. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Pub, ISBN 1-57510-051-7; Aloe, Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Texas, Northeastern Corpus Christi area
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The Air Defense Command radar site southeast of the base is abandoned and full of junk vehicles; the buildings on it are still standing in a deteriorated state. Former parking apron at Pyote AAF, taken 2002. The property was being used by the Texas Youth Commission's West Texas State School. The former AFB family housing (small, individual ...
Nuclear bunkers in the United States (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Bunkers in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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The Contrabando is a vacant and artificial ghost town used as a filming location within the Big Bend Ranch State Park, 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west of Lajitas, Texas, on the Texas State Highway 170. [1] The church from the movie set