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Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958 to 1963.
Texas Tower 3 emblem. Texas Tower 3 (ADC ID: TT-3) was a former United States Air Force Texas Tower General Surveillance Radar station, first operational in November 1956. The radar station was 50 miles (80 km) southeast of the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 80 feet of water. The tower was closed in 1963 and dismantled. [1]
Texas Tower 2 emblem. Texas Tower 2 (ADC ID: TT-2) was a former United States Air Force Texas Tower General Surveillance Radar station, first operational in 1955. It was located 110 miles (180 km) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 56 feet (17 m) of water. The tower was closed in 1963 and dismantled. [1] [2]
Tatalina Air Force Station; Texas Tower 2; Texas Tower 3; Texas Tower 4; Thule Air Station; Thule Site N-32; Thule Tracking Station; Tierra Amarilla Air Force Station; Tin City Long Range Radar Site; Tonopah Air Force Station; Two Creeks Air Force Station
The tower was the site of an accident and was destroyed by a winter storm on January 15, 1961. None of the 28 airmen and civilian contractors who were staffing the station survived. [2] Texas Tower 4 was one in a series of crewed radar stations called "Texas Towers" because they resembled the oil-drilling platforms of the Gulf of Mexico.
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The unit operated the Texas Tower 4, an offshore radar annex from 1958 until it collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean on 15 January 1961, killing 28 people. [1] The squadron was activated on 1 June 1948 and renamed to the 646th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 October 1958. The Highlands AFS site was closed altogether in 1974. [2]
It was just after 6 p.m. on a Tuesday — March 28, 2000 — when the darkened storm clouds started to rotate over River Oaks and west Fort Worth.