Redstone Arsenal Entry Sign (Fair use for non-profit news reporting, cropped photo by G. Morgan)
World War 2 PHOTOS of Redstone Arsenal Chemical Warfare Munitions
Above & below, U.S. Army Photos at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Fair use rights for non-profit news reporting.)
Gulf Chemical Warfare Depot, and Redstone Arsenal, 1941-1949
During the two decades between the end of World War I and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States withdrew into a strong protective shell consisting of isolationist, protectionist, and nativist sentiments. This urge to remain aloof from foreign entanglements had a decidedly adverse affect on the U.S. military, particularly the Army. The period between the world wars was a time of seemingly endless constraints on money, manpower, and materiel. By 1939, the U.S. Army was ranked nineteenth worldwide, behind Belgium and Greece.
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Editors Note: This is a reproduction of a special study written by Helen Brents Joiner, a former Historian of the U.S. Army Missile Command’s Historical Division. We’ve attempted to reproduce this study for the web as it appeared in 1966, keeping all original language and punctuation. We’ve added photographs and links to other studies where we felt that the reader could benefit from these other studies. Link: http://history.redstone.army.mil/ihist-chem.html
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I. BEGINNINGS OF HUNTSVILLE ARSENAL
II. ORGANIZATION OF HUNTSVILLE ARSENAL
III. WARTIME WORKLOAD
IV. REVIEW OF WAR RECORDV. DEMOBILIZATION, 1945
VI. GULF CHEMICAL WARFARE DEPOT
VII. THE POSTWAR YEARS, 1946-1947VIII. DEACTIVATION, 1948-1949
II. ORGANIZATION OF HUNTSVILLE ARSENAL
III. WARTIME WORKLOAD
IV. REVIEW OF WAR RECORDV. DEMOBILIZATION, 1945
VI. GULF CHEMICAL WARFARE DEPOT
VII. THE POSTWAR YEARS, 1946-1947VIII. DEACTIVATION, 1948-1949
IX. ORIGIN OF THE REDSTONE ORDNANCE PLANT
X. INITIAL OPERATIONS
XI. THE WAR YEARS
XII. RETRENCHMENT AND RESURGENCE
X. INITIAL OPERATIONS
XI. THE WAR YEARS
XII. RETRENCHMENT AND RESURGENCE
LA Times Article - Deadly chemical weapons, buried and lost, lurk under U.S. soil - Cleaning up an Alabama site, one of hundreds where toxic munitions were dumped after World War II, is expected to take decades. It's not even known what exactly is there.
March 21, 2014| By David Zucchino REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — Yanking aside a tree branch, Jason Watson peered into a waterlogged trench. He pointed out discolored metal drums sunk halfway in the water..."Blister agents, choking agents, blood agents," Watson said, listing the array of chemical weapons inside thousands of metal containers that were buried on this 38,000-acre base after World War II. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-chemical-weapons-20140322-story.html
WAAY-TV Report - WWII chemical agent cleanup will take decades on Redstone Arsenal - March 28, 2014 http://www.waaytv.com/redstone_alabama/wwii-chemical-agent-cleanup-will-take-decades-on-redstone-arsenal/article_6d6554c6-b6e4-11e3-b13a-0017a43b2370.html Post link not available, no archived data that I could find related to this specific article.
National Academies of Science Report
"The Challenges at Redstone Arsenal"
The cleanup at RSA in Huntsville, Alabama is a huge challenge. The site comprises some 38,300 acres of land containing over 300 solid waste management units. Seventeen of these are suspected CWM sites for which the state regulatory authority is requesting removal as an interim measure to satisfy the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). RSA is also believed to be the largest and most challenging of the sites in terms of estimated quantities, the condition and variety of items, operational complexity, regulatory issues, and potential remediation costs. Each of these units not only is likely to require a customized approach but also has more than 5 miles of disposal trenches and various burn and disposal areas for chemical munitions and related wastes as a result of
operations that began in the early 1940s.
WAFF-TV Report - September 24, 2015 "The Redstone Arsenal has been in constant cleanup mode for decades after building chemical weapons during World War II. Now, the cleanup of those weapons is shifting into overdrive. The Arsenal is asking the state for permission so it can nearly triple the number of hazardous waste storage units." http://www.waff.com/story/30107341/redstone-arsenal-expands-hazardous-waste-cleanup
VIDEOS of Public Information Session, a 4 part video presentation
PART 1 Introduction
PART 2 Chemical Weapon Cleanup and DDT
PART 3 Chemical Weapons cleanup, Permit Modification
PART 4 EDS
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