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After the war the air station went into caretaker status in December 1946, became an outlying landing field of Naval Air Station Dallas, and was later used by the Texas Army National Guard and other branches of the U.S. military before being sold to a private owner in the 1970s.
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.)
Fort Duncan (near Eagle Pass) Fort Holland (near Valentine) Fort McIntosh (near Laredo) Fort Ringgold (in Rio Grande City) Fort D. A. Russell (near Marfa) Fort Sam Houston (in San Antonio) Fort San Jacinto (in Galveston) Camp Travis [1]
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The CSA garrisoned the fort with volunteers and Texas Rangers, renaming it Rio Grande Station, which became an important port for the export of cotton into Mexico. [3]: 46 Federal troops reoccupied Fort Duncan on 23 March 1868 by the 41st Infantry under the command of Lt. Col. William R. Shafter, and Lt. Henry Ware Lawton as quartermaster.
Hundreds of pilots learned their basic and primary flying skills at these airfields in the Fort Worth area during the war. They were closed in 1919 when the war ended. [2] In 1940 the City of Fort Worth had filed an application with the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), asking for a primary pilot training airfield for the Army Air Corps.
Greensheet is a local community newspaper based in Houston, Texas, with local offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas. The newspaper was founded in March 1970. Greensheet currently has 19 print editions in Texas. 12 in Houston, Texas; 7 in Dallas, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas. Greensheet also provides an online marketplace offering free classified ...
General Dynamics F-16C Block 30, AF Serial No. 85-1412 of the 301st Fighter Wing , NAS Fort Worth JRB, Carswell Field, Texas Lockheed C-130H-LM Hercules, AF Serial No. 85-1362 from the Texas Air National Guard's 136th Airlift Wing based at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Carswell Field on the ramp at Bagram AB, Afghanistan on Wednesday, 31 May 2006.