training. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the division served with distinction, dismounted, in the China Burma India Theater, where a member of the unit from Fort Brown earned the theater's only Medal of Honor (awarded to Jack L. Knight, commanding F Troop). United States Army Air Forces use During World War II, Fort Brown was transferred to the USAAF Training Command on July 7, 1943. The USAAF Gulf Coast Training Center (later Central Flying Training Command) used the fort for flexible gunnery training until the fort was inactivated on February 1, 1946. Decommission On February 1, 1946, Fort Brown was decommissioned and turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers on April 25, 1946. It was acquired by the City of Brownsville and Texas Southmost College in 1948. Three areas that were once part of the post were designated a discontiguous National Historic Landmark District in 1960, in recognition of its historic importance. These include earthworks built in 1846, a cavalry barracks built in 1848, and a collection of buildings erected mainly between 1868 and 1870, including a hospital, morgue, barracks, commissary, colonel's house, and officers' quarters. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 authorized the addition of Fort Brown (166 acres) to Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park. Gallery See also List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas National Register of Historic Places listings in Cameron County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Cameron County References Fort Brown, Handbook of Texas Online External links Closed installations of the United States Army National Historic Landmarks in Texas Texas in the American Civil War Brown Brown Brown Buildings and structures in Cameron County, Texas 1846 establishments in Texas Brown National Register of Historic Places in Cameron County, Texas American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places