Bergstrom Air Force Base munitions bunkers

The site now occupied by Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was Bergstrom Air Force Base from 1942 to 1993, and the base included hardened aircraft shelters and below‑ground munitions storage bunkers used during World War II and the Cold War. After the base closed, the property was converted to a civilian airport, and traces of former military infrastructure and bunker footprints remain in the airport environs and adjacent parcels. The base's military history and bunkers are documented in federal and local records related to Bergstrom AFB and the airport redevelopment.