Black Hills Ordnance Depot - Wikipedia
WEBThe Black Hills Ordnance Depot (BHOD) was a munitions storage and maintenance facility formerly operated by the United States Army Ordnance Corps. The depot was located in Fall River County, in far southwestern South Dakota about eight miles south of the town of Edgemont. [1]
Kingsbury Ordnance Plant - An Incredible Abandoned WWII Era Ammunition …
WEBApr 5, 2017 · Across a sprawling 13,000-acre stretch of land lies the scattered remains of a World War II era Ammunition factory. The crumbling industrial buildings and subterranean bunkers of Kingsbury Ordnance Plant punctuate grids of cracked pavement surrounded by farm fields and forestland.
Hawthorne Army Depot - Wikipedia
WEBIt was established after a major disaster occurred at the Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Depot, in New Jersey, in 1926. The accident virtually destroyed the depot, causing heavy damage to adjacent Picatinny Arsenal and the surrounding communities, killing 21 people, and seriously injuring 53 others.
Badger Army Ammunition Plant - Wikipedia
WEBThe Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP or Badger) or Badger Ordnance Works (B.O.W.) is an excess, non- BRAC, United States Army facility located near Sauk City, Wisconsin. It manufactured nitrocellulose -based propellants during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Umatilla Army Depot - The Oregon Encyclopedia
WEBUmatilla Army Depot. In 1940, the U.S. Army identified twenty thousand acres straddling the Umatilla and Morrow county line, eight miles west of Hermiston, as the site for a military munitions and supply depot.
Hastings, Nebraska - U.S. National Park Service
WEBThe new defense facility, Naval Ammunition Depot Hastings (NAD Hastings), was the largest of four inland U.S. Navy ammu nition depots. Located southeast of Hastings the workers at the depot worked 24 hours a day producing bombs, mines, rockets, 40mm shells, depth charges, torpedoes, and 16-inch projectiles.
U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma …
WEBThe U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot at McAlester (now the U.S. Army Ammunition Plant) was built as one of the new military installations needed when the United States became involved in World War II.
Concrete Bunkers Recall Evansville’s Ammo Depot
WEBMay 27, 2019 · The government constructed an ammunition depot next to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad line in northern Vanderburgh County, where equipment and ammunition could be stored while awaiting transportation.
Army ammunition plants continue serving nation
WEBSep 16, 2020 · By 1945, Army ammunition facilities had produced 11 million tons of artillery ammunition, more than 475,000 tons of mortar ammunition, 6 million tons of bombs and rockets and 39 billion...
America by Air: Abandoned Army Depot - The Atlantic
WEBMar 25, 2016 · The U.S. Army began work there in 1917 with military weapons testing and the grounds boomed to life. During World War II it was the largest Army depot in the county.