The Exploding “Ammo Dump”

“An ammunition magazine containing a considerable amount of high explosives and pyrotechnics exploded at 5:30 a.m. in the New Mexico desert near San Marcial on a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base reservation.“  So said the El Paso Herald-Post on the afternoon of July 16, 1945.  The shock wave from the explosion was felt [...]

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