Expect the Unexpected with Ordnance

I repeat certain points in case someone skims this book or only reads certain chapters. Many ranges may have been used for other experimental ordnance development during wartime, or simply to expend some old but serviceable ordnance for a training exercise. A mortar range is just as good a place to test out an old bazooka as anywhere else. 

A very experienced ordnance contractor—a former artillery colonel with a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Tom Jenkins—was cleaning up a remote howitzer range. The several mile morning dirt road trip in the jeep was made more fun by that one bump in the road, over which they could clear all four wheels. After finishing the range, an air geophysical survey of nearby areas for stray rounds found one anomaly. The bump in the dirt road turned out to be a 200-pound live fused bomb. 

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