Before 9/11 there was "Black Tom"
In the early hours of Sunday, July 30, 1916, a thousand tons of small arms and artillery ammunition, bound for Britain, France and Russia in their war against Imperial Germany, detonated in a series of explosions at the Black Tom shipping depot, a Jersey City railroad hub and pier in New York harbor. A ring of German saboteurs, operating under the direc…
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