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Number of towers

Internet accounts indicate that only three Texas Towers (TT2, TT3, TT4) were ever built not four.

Locations

I have changed the location details of TT3 and TT4 to correct them. There is some confusion because the original documentation and publications number the site locations from 1 to 5, but apart from TT2 which was located at site 2, the others were given tower numbers that were different from the original site numbers. This article had given for TT3 and TT4, the details for locations 3 and 4 (which were the proposed locations of TT1 and TT5). I trust that this is now correct.

I've added location details for the towers but had a similar problem to you in that It is difficult to de-cipher which tower went where.Can you add the correct tower number to the two entries for 1 and 5. Thanks.Petebutt (talk) 08:27, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The locations were as follows:-

Location 1 - Nantucket Shoal - became TT3.
Location 2 - George's Shoal - became TT2.
Location 3 - Cashes Ledge - would have been TT1.
Location 4 - Brown's Bank - would have been TT5.
Location 5 - Un-named Shoal - became TT4.

This is all explained at http://www.texastower.com/history_new.htm 82.26.57.60 (talk) 23:54, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the size of the platform

I have given the length of each side of the platform as a round 200 feet given that thus far I haven't come upon any two sources giving the same length (values given range from 187 to 210 feet). Mangoe (talk) 14:56, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Lives Lost

The following Airforce and civilian personal lost their lives aboard the Texas Towers. Twenty-eight (28) of these people where lost during the collapse of Tower 4 on January 15th, 1961. The four (4) others were lost during accidents aboard Towers 2 and 3.

Mr. David W. Abbott, Mr. Milton D. Leo, Captain Gordon T. Phelan (OIC Tower 4), S/SGT. Harry M. Shaffer, Mr. Vincent G. Brown, Mr. Raymond D. Martell, Captain Lewis V. Barker, S/SGT. John R. Bradstreet, Mr. Samuel Buccheri, Mr. Anthony Opalka, C.W.O. Owen L. Morgan, A/1C. William E. Krause, Mr. Chester J. Cudnik, Mr. Edward T. Robertson, M/SGT. Roald Bakke, A/1C. Larry V. Woolford, Mr. Thomas J. Evans, Mr. Henry Schutz, M/SGT. Troy F. Williams, A/2C. Domenic V. Giurastante, Mr. Aram Haroutunian, Mr. William Smythe, T/SGT. Bishop O. Foster, A/2C. Leland H. Jones, Mr. Arsen S. Haroutunian, Mr. Vincent A. Yavoroski, T/SGT. Donald R. Wait, A/2C. Louis M. Laino, Mr. William C. Ide, S/SGT. Kenneth H. Green, A/2C. David K. Parker, S/SGT. Wilbur L. Kovarick,

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