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Offline -ammo-

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« on: March 08, 2003, 01:36:38 AM »
This High order detonation was one of the absolute largest in the history of the continental U.S.  It has been specualated that it was the second largest explosion only behind the 194'ish shipboard detonation that happened in California.  I wish I could give you some scale to the photo. Those structures are over a 150' long, 25' high, and 30' wide at the door.  It shouldn't be hard to figure out what the structures are or what the facility is used for.
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2003, 02:16:58 AM »
looks like homer simpson cheering.
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2003, 02:35:30 AM »
First annual FDB fart lighting contest.
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2003, 04:41:44 AM »
LOL !

"Hold mah beer..."
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2003, 05:21:51 AM »
Ammunition Explosion at Texas City, Texas.
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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2003, 08:02:36 AM »
Andi, you are close. However you have the location wrong (even though I think you might be talking about the same event.

Here is an igloo that is approximately half the size of the ones pictured above.

http://www.ghostbase.org/bentwaters/bw231.jpg
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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2003, 08:05:04 AM »
Defeat of Japan/Hiroshima :D


just jokin, haven't got a clue
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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2003, 09:58:16 AM »
was that the factory close to Vagas that made solid rocket fuel?
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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2003, 10:29:00 AM »
Hostile Shores frame 4 ?
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2003, 02:33:46 PM »
It looks like a BLU-82 exploding on top of hundreds of hi explosives.
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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2003, 03:44:42 PM »
galveston , texas
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2003, 11:43:20 PM »
It was actually in San Antonio in Nov 1961.  The blast was so powerfull it sent the 5 ton steel door 6 miles to loop 1604.  In my old career field, this incident is a big safety poster and a reality check:)
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« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2003, 01:54:25 PM »
You would love the dumps here in Northern Nevada. I remember sitting on 16" liners for BB's outside the offices of one. Hawthorne, the big one near Walker Lake, south of Reno. And there is Herlong (sp), stuff for Fallon NAS...
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« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2003, 10:05:01 PM »
I can see your house from there.
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« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2003, 11:45:59 PM »
Actually, the explosion in Texas City in 1947 was ammonium nitrate and not ammunition.  Pieces of the ship from the first explosion were found over ten miles away.  Fire departments from Houston had to be called in (Texas City is about 30 - 35 miles south of Houston).
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