USA 1948 – Centenary of Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss started life as an American
infantry post at El Paso on the US–Mexican border in
1848, although it did not move to its current site east of the
town until 1893. At the end of 1945 Wernher von Braun and other
top German rocket scientists arrived at Fort Bliss after
surrendering to the US Army at the end of World War II. By
February 1946 their numbers had grown to over 100 and they soon
began a series of test flights with modified V2 rockets from
White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Such a test launch is
the centrepiece of this stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary
of Fort Bliss’s founding. This is the first-ever stamp
with an astronautical, rather than astronomical, theme.
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