Talk:Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, Nebraska

message: There are a few errors in this page.  Most notably the Depot did not close in 1946, but was open until the 1960's and there were at least two major explosions.
My father had worked at the Torpedo Depot in Yorktown, VA and in  1942 was given the opportunity to become a line foreman at the Hastings Depot.  We arrived in Hastings in March 1943.  Since my father was the line foreman of the Bomb and Mine line, we were given a house on the base about a mile from the line.  I started to school in Glenville.  The Bomb and Mine line exploded on the grave yard shift in April 1944, destroying our house and killing about 13 or 14 people working on the line. A vehicle facility/garage acrtoss the road from our house was leveled.  Only a couple whole bodies were found and the body parts were buried in a single small box in the Glenville cemetary.  We were moved to another house closer to Glenville.  The second explosion occurred in Sept. 1944 at a train loading depot.  I had recalled a lot more people were killed than reported on the site.  I also recalled that the casualities were black sailors, but I may have that muddled since I was only 7 years old at the time.
When the war ended in 1945, we were moved to the "residential area" , which was a group of houses which had been moved from farms into a community on the base, just south of Highway 6.  The community was segregated between civilians and officers.  We were one of the last civilian families to leave the base and moved off in 1948 when it was anticipated that the depot would close soon.  The Korean War brought a new vitality, but not nearly to the WWII peak.  My father continued to work there and became the leading civilian employee at the time of his retirement in 1960.
Robert Nelson
rlnelson@cox.net
Rlnelson1011 (talk) 18:22, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008

message: Rootsweb has a page that lists four explosions in 1944:
*January 27 - 3 killed in the black powder room, all members of the Negro Ordnance Battallion
*April 6 - 8 people died when 100,000 lbs of ordnance detonated in the bomb and mine loading area
*June 10 - 1 man killed when a detonator blew up
*September 15 - Huge explosion in the south transfer depot. Officially 9 dead, 53 injured. Some people think more perished.
This article needs to be expanded. Binksternet (talk) 23:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Four explosions in 1944 

message: The entry refers to the Naval Ammunition Depot at Hastings NE as if it were THE depot. Shouldn't an entry on NADs begin by describing what a NAD is, and then list examples of same?
Likewise, if this article is about the Hastings NAD, shouldn't the article be titled Hastings Naval Ammunition Depot, rather than the general Naval Ammunition Depot?
Also, was is the claim of "world's largest" referring to? Acreage? Employment? Total number of structures? e.g. I've seen references to the Hastings NAD having ~2,200 buildings, but the former NAD in Hawthorne is claimed to have over 2,400 bunkers, which indicates that "largest" must be defined in some objective way.
::I agree with the above editor, whomever they are.  Naval Ammunition Depots are all over and this is/ was only one of them. Johnvr4 (talk) 14:36, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: INCORRECT ARTICLE NAME & ACCURACY