EXPLOSION TRAGEDY
- AT AMERICAN NAVAL & AIR STATION. «■ TWENTY-FOUR PERSONS KILLED & MANY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) 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 eyewitness, the explosion and fire wrecked a hangar, and eight wooden barracks and badly damaged other hangars filled with aircraft. The depth charges were being trucked to the hangar for loading on patrol planes when they caught fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1943, Page 3
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91EXPLOSION TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1943, Page 3
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