Off Topic, History of Military explosions in the comments.
This is the Russian Explosion of ammo dump thread of 10-1-05.
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To: BenLurkin
As far as the ammunition trains that exploded during Vietnam you are
probably talking about the Roseville, CA incident. The investigation on
that was inconclusive. It was blamed on a hot box (bearing fire) but
never proved. However a second train exploded about a month later.
Both trains had loads of recently manufactured bombs from Crane
Navy Ammunition Plant. The second train was being followed by a
helicopter when it just went boom. Both incidents occured not long
after we bombed Hanoi in 72/73. They also occured near the time that
the US Capital building was bombed and other terrorist activities in
this country by organizations such as the SDS, Weather Underground,
and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. I have seen bombs involved in
fires and they are in the fires a long time before they explode or low
order. Normally they just burn out. In neither case involving the trains
were there any reports of a lenghty fire. I personally smelled a rat. I
was XO of Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant at the time.
37 posted on 10/01/2005 9:46:45 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (LET
ME KNOW WHERE HANOI JANE FONDA IS WHEN SHE TOURS)
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To: US Army EOD
Thank you for posting the above post, I found it interesting, hope it is ok to share it....
It would boggle everybody's mind if all the IED incidents during the 60's and 70's were published. Most of these people are still alive and in this country. They still hate this country now as much as they did forty years ago.