CSPAN3 American History TV February 15, 2015
In 1938 the navy did an investigation on the best suitable location for our Naval Air Station when the authorization came from congress to establish Naval Air Station, there were 12 in all. Including Corpus Christi, or flower bluff. This was the biggest and the best, and remains over these like 75 years. So vitally, critically important in the defense of the United States. Paris, undefended, fell into the conquest. In june of 1940 over in europe and world war ii already having begun, it just made clearer the urgency of getting a Naval Air Station, the funding was authorized to be 24 million. A...