Air Force handled 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 originated 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 towns alike, many feared nuclear annihilation and grappled with the need to build a bomb shelter in their backyard 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. The Cold War ended 30 years ago, and the real sense of fear and anxiety that Texans, their parents, and grandparents felt is hard to comprehend or relate to. Over nearly five decades, Texans responded to their nation’s call to duty and served admirably on the military and home front. It became an unofficial but all-too-real ‘state of war’ that would soon become known as the Cold War. 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.īetween 19, the two emerging superpowers engaged in an intense and escalating political, military, and economic confrontation. 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 mutual support.
When the Lone Star State Met the Iron Curtain: Recollections of Texas in the Cold War
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