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The NWIRP first began as an aerospace manufacturing complex constructed for the World War II mobilization program. [2] In 2012, the plant was sold to a private corporation for $357,500. [ 3 ] It was located for most of its time next to Naval Air Station Dallas , now known as the Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex .
The Battle of Dakar, also known as Operation Menace, was an unsuccessful attempt in September 1940 by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa (modern-day Senegal). It was hoped that the success of the operation could overthrow the pro-German Vichy French administration in the colony, and be replaced by a pro ...
The Battle of Gabon (French: Bataille du Gabon), also called the Gabon Campaign (Campagne du Gabon), occurred in November 1940 during World War II. The battle resulted in forces under the orders of General Charles de Gaulle taking the colony of Gabon and its capital, Libreville, from Vichy France, and the rallying of French Equatorial Africa to Free France.
The war added another feature to the history of Fort Clark, that of having a German prisoner-of-war subcamp on the 4,000-acre reservation. Finally, in June 1944, nearly three years after the beginning of World War II, and after full mechanization of the cavalry, the government ordered the closure of Fort Clark, one of the last horse-cavalry ...
On 5 November, a group of 1,635 former prisoners of war embarked in Morlaix on the British ship Circassia. [9] The group landed in Dakar on 21 November and were temporarily assigned to the military camp of Thiaroye. [10] On 25 November, a group that was supposed to depart for Bamako on that same day refused to leave Thiaroye until the matter ...
The Texas Civil War Museum is closing and its $20M in antiques are for sale. (It tried to show “both sides.” But there aren’t two sides of slavery.)
[2] Operations were conducted under command of Stephen F. Austin. [2] As a sovereign republic from 1835 to 1845, the Texas Military was legally empowered by Article 1 of the Consultation and Article 2, Section 6 of Constitution of the Republic of Texas "to execute the law, to suppress insurrections, and repel invasion."
After the end of World War II, the United States National Guard was reorganized and expanded from its prewar size. Initial War Department unit allocations submitted to states for review in early February 1946 gave the 49th Armored Division to Texas and New Mexico, with the latter receiving one combat command headquarters and its subordinate units as well as field artillery and engineer ...