From the August 24, 2016, MidWeel (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
1991, 25 Years Ago.
"DeKalb County is starting to become a regular customer for the explosive ordnance disposal unit at Fort Sheridan. For the second time in less than a week, the 51st Ordnance Detachment was called out to the county to handle disposal of another round of possible live ammunition.
"This time the ammo was a live Mark II World War II vintage hand grenade. The unit was called out to remove a Civil War Hotsckiss artillery shell found in a DeKalb scrapyard."
--Cooter
Showing posts with label ammunition ships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ammunition ships. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Friday, May 8, 2009
USS Pyro (AE-1)
I'd never heard of the USS Pyro in the entry earlier today, so went to good old Wikipedia.
The USS Pyro was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships built from 1919 to 1946.
It was laid down at the Navy Yard in Puget Sound, Washington, in 1919 and commissioned 10 August 1920. After four years service, it was decommissioned in 1924 and recommissioned in 1939 as part of America's build up for World War II.
It was moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked. It received no serious damage, but at least one close call. It is credited with shooting down a Japanese plane.
Four days later, the Pyro left for San Francisco for ammunition. It participated in operations in the Pacific for the remainder of the war and was sold for scrap in 1946.
The second ship of the class was called the USS Nitro. Explosive names.
The USS Pyro was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships built from 1919 to 1946.
It was laid down at the Navy Yard in Puget Sound, Washington, in 1919 and commissioned 10 August 1920. After four years service, it was decommissioned in 1924 and recommissioned in 1939 as part of America's build up for World War II.
It was moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked. It received no serious damage, but at least one close call. It is credited with shooting down a Japanese plane.
Four days later, the Pyro left for San Francisco for ammunition. It participated in operations in the Pacific for the remainder of the war and was sold for scrap in 1946.
The second ship of the class was called the USS Nitro. Explosive names.
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