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In February 1953, the Fort Lawton Processing Center transferred half of its functions, the outbound tasks, to Fort Lewis (now called Joint Base Lewis McChord). Returnees continued to process through Fort Lawton. In 1960, the Air Force established a radar station at Fort Lawton. Additionally, Nike anti-aircraft missiles and Air Force radars were ...
Fort Washita is the former United States military post and National Historic Landmark located in Durant, Oklahoma on SH 199.Established in 1842 by General (later President) Zachary Taylor to protect citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations from the Plains Indians, it was later abandoned by Federal forces at the beginning of the American Civil War.
Oklahoma Army National Guard. 45th Fires Brigade – Mustang (HIMARS) 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team – Norman. 90th Troop Command – Oklahoma City. Camp Gruber Maneuver Training Center – Braggs. Hal Muldrow Army Aviation Support Facility – Lexington – KHMY. Oklahoma Regional Training Institute – Oklahoma City [3]
The Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center is a Native American cultural center in Seattle, Washington, described by its parent organization United Indians of All Tribes as "an urban base for Native Americans in the Seattle area." Located on 20 acres (81,000 m²) in Seattle's Discovery Park in the Magnolia neighborhood, the center developed from ...
Bryan County, Oklahoma. / 33.97°N 96.25°W / 33.97; -96.25. Bryan County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,067. [1] Its county seat is Durant. [2] It is the only county in the United States named for Democratic politician William Jennings Bryan .
The 70th Infantry Division ("Trailblazers" [1]) was a unit of the United States Army in World War II, spearheading the Seventh United States Army 's drive into Germany, south of Saarbrücken . Activated at Camp Adair, Oregon, in 1943, the 70th Division served throughout World War II in the European Theater of Operations, the division was ...
The Santa Fe riot [1] was a confrontation at a Japanese internment camp near Santa Fe, New Mexico, during World War II. On March 12, 1945, approximately 275 internees assembled in Camp Santa Fe to watch and protest the removal of three men to another camp. During which, a scuffle broke out between the internees and the Border Patrol agents who ...
The Fort Lawton riot refers to a series of events in August 1944 starting with a violent conflict between U.S. soldiers and Italian prisoners of war at Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington during World War II. [1] After the riot, prisoner Guglielmo Olivotto was found dead. [nb 1] This led to the court-martial of 43 soldiers, all of them African ...