On 16 April 1947, America's worst harbor explosion occurred in
Texas City, Texas, when the French ship
Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the
Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than five hundred people and left two hundred others missing.
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