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To: KamperKen

That was well over 3k. I worked on bombing ranges for years, and I’ve never seen anything that large.


126 posted on 08/04/2020 1:18:56 PM PDT by antidisestablishment
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To: antidisestablishment
That was well over 3k. I worked on bombing ranges for years, and I’ve never seen anything that large.

The SS John Burke explosion above was probably in the order of 4,000 tons of ordinance as that was the carrying capacity of a liberty ship.
130 posted on 08/04/2020 1:35:24 PM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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