1948 Fort Bliss Texas Sc 976-8 FDC with ArtCraft cachet plate block 23935UL

Item Specifics

Country

United States

Catalog Number

976-978

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

First Day Cover

Stamp Format

Plate Block

Item Description

1948 Fort Bliss Texas Sc 976-8 FDC with ArtCraft cachet plate block 23935UL

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles and is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overall (the largest being the adjacent White Sands Missile Range). The portion of the post located in El Paso County, Texas. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract (1,500 sq mi or 3,900 km2) of restricted airspace[12] in the Continental United States, used for missile and artillery training and testing, and at 992,000 acres boasts the largest maneuver area (ahead of the National Training Center, which has 642,000 acres). The garrison's land area is accounted at 1.12 million acres, ranging to the boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

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