AMMUNITION EXPLODES
TRAGEDY AT PEARL HARBOUR LONDON, June 15. Ammunition explosions destroyed several small landing craft at Pearl Harbour on May 21. Twenty-seven men were killed, 100 are missing, and 380 were injured, according to a Navy Department announcement. The department also announced that the magazine at the ammunition depot on Oahu Island exploded on June 11. Three men were killed, and seven are missing. Damage was "caused to the general magazine area, power lines, and railway tracks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 6
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