EXPLOSION IN VIRGINIA
NEW YORK, September 19,
Twenty-four depth charges containing cordite equalling several blockbusters caused an explosion resulting in 24 deaths at the naval and air station at Norfolk, Virginia. Between 250 and 300 were injured.
According to an eye-witness, the explosion and fire wrecked a hangar and eight wooden barracks, and badly damaged other hangars filled with aircraft.
The depth charges were being sent by truck to the hangar for loading on patrol planes when they caught fire.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 4
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