In October 1962, the 4080 th SRW and elements of the C.I.A. However, the personal stories of the men and women who served in the Cold War-told in their own words-when recorded and preserved will enrich our understanding of this important period in our nation's history. The histories of these sites are documented at 'on base' museums, through the efforts of local county historical museums, public libraries, and at each respective branch’s national archive. These military sites trained young men and women in a post-World War II desegregated military for active duty in the U.S. Navy-operated Space Surveillance Field Station. Army-garrisoned Nike Missile batteries, and a U.S. Air Force-manned Atlas Missile bases, the U.S.
In addition, smaller facilities in Texas played major roles in the national defense: the U.S.
Navy air and fleet stations at Kingsville, Corpus Christi, Beeville, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Ingleside. Army posts at Fort Bliss, Fort Sam Houston, Fort Hood, Fort Wolters, and Texarkana and U.S. Air Force bases and stations at Lubbock, Pyote, San Angelo, El Dorado, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo, Harlingen, San Antonio, Victoria, Houston, Bryan, Waco, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, and Sherman U.S. These Cold War military sites included U.S. Throughout the Cold War, Texas was host to dozens of active duty Department of Defense sites, many of which whose origins began in World War II. These same people participated in both anti-war protests and patriotic demonstrations of support in response to the Cold War's impact on their lives. On the home front, in small and large Texas towns alike, many feared nuclear annihilation and grappled with the need to build a bomb shelter in the back yard during the Arms Race. Like the rest of the nation, Texans worried about family members serving overseas during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Operation Desert Storm. Over the course of nearly five decades, Texas and Texans responded to their nation’s call to duty on both the military and home front, and served admirably.Īlthough the Cold War officially ended almost 25 years ago, to many, the real sense of fear and anxiety that Texans (their parents and grandparents) felt is hard to comprehend or relate to. The United States and the Soviet Union were actively engaged in an escalating and intense political, military, and economic confrontation between 19. As a result, an unofficial but nonetheless all-too-real ‘state of war’ developed between the two emerging superpowers. Competing views of post-war Europe and other regions around the world quickly set the former allies down a decades-long period of mutual distrust.
When World War II ended in September 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union-former allies in the defeat of Nazi Germany had already begun to see fractures in their once-mutual support of one another.
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