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A specimen of stibnite. The Stibnite Mining District sits atop the Idaho Batholith, one of the signature features of Idaho’s unique geology.The Idaho Batholith is nearly 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) of granite, formed from the collision of the oceanic plate and the North American Plate around 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. [10]
Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, Nebraska, 27 September 1944 munitions explosions causing nine deaths and extensive damage. USS Mount Hood, 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed; Tolar, New Mexico, 30 November 1944, munitions carried by train exploded, causing extensive damage to town and killing 1.
Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the gateway city to Northern Idaho off Interstate 90 , just west of Coeur d'Alene , and east of Spokane, Washington . The population was 38,485 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] making it Idaho's ninth-largest city and the second largest city in North Idaho behind Coeur d’Alene.
Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A survey of the known ...
An explosion of oil tankers at the Islam-Qala customs post that damaged or destroyed more than 500 oil tankers. [138] [139] [140] 13 February 2021 Afghanistan: Balkh Province: 30 Unknown An explosion occurred at a Taliban bomb-making class. Thirty militants (including six foreigners) were killed, and an unknown number were injured. [141] 23 ...
In 1975, the anti-nuclear book We Almost Lost Detroit, by John G. Fuller was published, referring at one point to the Idaho Falls accident. Prompt Critical is the title of a 2012 short film, viewable on YouTube , written and directed by James Lawrence Sicard, dramatizing the events surrounding the SL-1 accident. [ 55 ]
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Idaho for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of Second Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC). However other USAAF support commands (Air Technical Service ...
The 190th Fighter Squadron is a unit of the Idaho Air National Guard 124th Fighter Wing located at Gowen Field Air National Guard Base, Boise, Idaho.The 190th is equipped with the A-10 Thunderbolt II.