Dangerous Work
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Buildings like these, known as igloos, were used to store bombs at Bluebonnet. They were spaced far apart and half buried with dirt barricades for safety. When Texas A&M took over the site as a research farm, the structures became sheds for storing livestock.
This file appears in: Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant
Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant
After Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the United States into World War II, production increased dramatically at home to aid the war effort overseas. In short order, munitions factories popped up throughout the nation. The town of McGregor was…