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A picture of Civil War cannonballs found in the Pittsburgh area taken during Operation Blue Steel Nov. 30 - Dec. 4 at Letterkenny Army Depot located in Chambersburg, P.A. Established in 1814, Allegheny Arsenal was known as one of America's principal ordnance innovators and manufacturers of ammunition for small arms and artillery in the years before the Civil War. One of the methods of disposing of mass amounts of ordnance around that time was to bury it . Around 1200 Civil War cannonballs were found in the Pittsburgh area, and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams worked together to render them safe. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Sharifa Newton, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD))
| Date Taken: | 11.30.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 02.23.2021 14:48 |
| Photo ID: | 6460281 |
| VIRIN: | 201130-A-BM078-1043 |
| Resolution: | 5472x3648 |
| Size: | 1.27 MB |
| Location: | CHAMBERSBURG, PA, US |
| Web Views: | 37 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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Exploding History to Build Readiness
Marine
Pennsylvania
improvised explosive devices
technicians
Disposal
Detonation
Bomb
Emergency response
Civil War
Delaware
Pittsburgh
Chambersburg
weapons of mass destruction
Bomb Squad
Civil Authorities
VIP
Support
P.A.
Washington
D.C.
Air Force
EOD
Army
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Spring Valley
explosive ordnance
Homeland response
National Capital Region
Demilitarization
Formerly Used Defense Site
Police Department
192nd Ordnance Battalion EOD
52nd Ordnance Group EOD
detecting
Det. Cord
Shape charge
U.S. Secret Service
Cannonballs
Letterkenny Army Depot
Civil War-era
55th Ordnance Company EOD
locating
Allegheny Arsenal
55th OD CO
Operation Blue Steel
identifying
diagnosing
rendering safe
exploiting
disposing
improvised/homemade explosives
Pittsburgh Police Department Bomb Squad
VIP support
Metro area
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