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Galveston Island has a rich and varied history with military operations and conflict. From Spanish soldiers shipwrecked in 1528, to the Texian Navy founded in Galveston during the Texas Revolution, to the Union Navy occupying the island in 1865 to free enslaved people, to the United States Coast Guard patrolling the Gulf Coast during World Wars I and II, to the gun emplacements at Fort Crockett, to the United States Army Air Corps taking over Galveston's airport during World War II—Galveston has seen its fair share of military activity.

Interested in the information covered in this episode? Dive deeper into the links below!
https://www.rosenberg-library-museum.org/exhibits/galveston-the-great-war
https://easttexashistory.org/items/show/160
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/fort-crockett#:~:text=Fort%20Crockett%2C%20named%20after%20David,%2C%20and%20rapid%2Dfire%20guns.

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