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Diasasters Underground
N.J. McCamley
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Description for Diasasters Underground
Hardcover.
The rapid expansion of the RAF during the mid/late 1930s necessitated a massive storage requirement for high explosive bombs and other ordinance. Drawing on the experience of the Great War ammunition factories, the authorities set about identifying underground sites around Britain safe from the threat of air attack. Unfortunately in the haste of the moment safety arrangements were not a high priority and, as a result, there were a number of appalling accidents; the most serious occurred in November 1944 when 3,800 tons of HE bombs detonated at the same time resulting in the deaths of 68 people in a ... Read more
The rapid expansion of the RAF during the mid/late 1930s necessitated a massive storage requirement for high explosive bombs and other ordinance. Drawing on the experience of the Great War ammunition factories, the authorities set about identifying underground sites around Britain safe from the threat of air attack. Unfortunately in the haste of the moment safety arrangements were not a high priority and, as a result, there were a number of appalling accidents; the most serious occurred in November 1944 when 3,800 tons of HE bombs detonated at the same time resulting in the deaths of 68 people in a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844150229
SKU
V9781844150229
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99-2
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