Home Fading memories of a wartime powerhouse: South Charleston’s ordnance plant Unidentified Ordnance Employee

Unidentified Ordnance Employee

David Sibray strolls the track around Oakes Field in the shadow of the former Charleston Ordnance Center.

An unidentified employ sits on the nose cowl of an aircraft at the ordnance center at South Charleston, West Virginia.

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