76mm ammunition!? For what? An M4 Sherman tank?
Surely this stuff hasn’t been there since WWII.
“Surely this stuff hasn’t been there since WWII.”
Possible. Dangerous because there is so much of it and it is stored where the sun can heat it which may cause deterioration which can lead to spontaneous combustion which in a 6 million pound pile of this stuff may lead to more than a large fast fire or may not.
Actually the Sherman used a short barreled, low velocity 75M. The British took the Sherman and ripped out the 75 and replaced it with a long barreled 76 MM and they called the tank the Firefly. The new(for then)M24 light tank also had a 75 MM but was a long barreled high velocity gun. The M41 Bulldog that replaced the M24 had a high velocity 76 MM.
No reason for pointing this out except I sometimes like to show off, the older I get the more often the urge crops up. :)