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The Fauld Disaster - 27 November 1944

By Nick McCamley

The Fauld Disaster - 27 November 1944 Social Sciences

The Fauld Disaster - 27 November 1944

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On the morning of Monday 27th November 1944 an enormous explosion rocked the Staffordshire countryside. Near the village of Fauld a whole hilltop, an estimated two million tons of rock and debris, was blasted two thousand feet into the air leaving a crater a quarter of a mile in diameter and one hundred feet in depth. Deep below the surface some 4,000 tons of bombs stored in the RAF’s largest underground ammunition depot had exploded en-masse, destroying much of the depot, devastating the local landscape and claiming seventy lives. This is the definitive history of the RAF’s ill-fated excursion into underground storage during the Second World War, culminating in the disaster at Fauld.
Product details
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2015-03-30
Publication Date:
2015-03-30
Publisher:
Folly Books Ltd
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0992855438
Weight:
1318 g
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