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  2. Camp Maxey - Wikipedia

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    Camp Maxey is a Texas Military Department training facility that was originally built as a U.S. Army infantry-training camp during World War II. [1] It was occupied from July 1942 to early 1946, and located near the community of Powderly, Texas, in the north-central portion of Lamar County. Its main entrance was located 9 miles north of Paris ...

  3. List of conflicts involving the Texas Military - Wikipedia

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    Year Conflict Texas Military Unit(s) Commander Casualties Outcome Reference 1842 Texas Archive War: Frontier Battalion, Texas Rangers: Thomas I. Smith / Eli Chandler 0 Failure [11] 1844 Regulator–Moderator War: Texas Militia: Travis G. Broocks / Alexander Horton Unknown Accomplished [12] 1857 Cart War: Texas Militia: Unknown 0 Accomplished ...

  4. Fort Cavazos - Wikipedia

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    Formerly named Fort Hood for Confederate General John Bell Hood, the post is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 mi (100 km) from each, within the U.S. state of Texas. The post is the headquarters of III Armored Corps and First Army Division West and is home to the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment , among others.

  5. Texas drought exposes resting place of five sunken World War ...

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    This year, during an "exceptional drought" in East Texas, the river is low again, and a man discovered the last resting place of World War I wooden-hulled ships in the low water. Why was Milner ...

  6. How do war bonds work? Their history and how to redeem them - AOL

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    The efforts paid off. From May 1941 through December 1945, more than $54 billion worth of war bonds were sold in the U.S. Can you still redeem war bonds? Yes, many U.S. war bonds are still redeemable.

  7. 5 sunken World War I ships at bottom of Texas river revealed ...

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    A 70-year-old retiree-turned-amateur shipwreck hunter discovered the wooden vessels, each 80 to 100 feet long, in the Neches River on Aug. 16, according to the Ice House Museum in Silsbee, Texas.

  8. Fort Crockett - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. List of wars involving the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.