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| Indiana Army Ammunition Plant |
What Max saw from the window of his Pullman Car was the massive Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP) under construction between Charlestown and Jeffersonville, Indiana. It consisted of three areas within two separate but attached manufacturing plants:
- Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 1 (IOW#1): (3,564.71 acres) made smokeless powder
- Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 2 (IOW#2): (2,757.49 acres) made rocket propellant
- Hoosier Ordnance Plant (HOP): (4,326.8 acres) manufactured (and loaded) propellant charge bags
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| Kentucky Dam By Unknown photographer - Private collection, Public Domain
The dam that Max saw is the "Kentucky Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The dam is the lowermost of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930's and early 1940's to improve navigation on the lower part of the river and reduce flooding on the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers. It was a major project initiated during the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, to invest in infrastructure to benefit the country. The dam impounds the Kentucky Lake of 160,000 acres, which is the largest of TVA's reservoirs and the largest artificial lake by area in the Eastern United States." - from Wikipedia
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