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EOD TEAM - Bp. 05 immM Wnitora (left) eonfert
with Oept. Blek Heit, oonuBnader of the 4Sth Ordunnee
Detochment, on the type of ertillnry ehell found In
Kinge Moimtnin.
Live Bomb
Foimd Here
TIMER RINOS - PoUoe Ohief Ewl
Uoyd ehowe the timer diele in the noee
cone of the TSmm lUumlnntlon ehell
unearthed at the KInge Mountain Depot
Fhotoe By Torn McIntyre
laet week by OaU McDaniel. Chief Lloyd
called the exploalve ordnance demolition
team from Fort Jackeon to dlepoee of the
eheU.
By TOM MCINTYRE
Editor, Mirror-Herald
CtaOl McDaniel, a city
enrqiloye, wae one of the
men aeelgned to conitruct
the farmer’e market
atands at the Depot Center.
While digging the trench
for a retaining wall about
the market etructure,
McDaniel found an en-
cniated metal object which
had been burled there for
years.
Obvloualy the Object was
a missile, a shell designed
to be fired from a large
gun. McDaniel took the
■hell home where he tried
polishing the brass noee
ccne with a wire brush. He
even tried to remove the
noee cone, but without
success.
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The next day he took the
sheU to Chief of PoUce Earl
Lloyd. “What happened to
this thing? It looks like
s(nneone Ium beat on It
with a hanuner,” the chief
asked.
McDaniel told the chief
what he had done to It.
Chief Lloyd felt the hair
prickle on the back of his
neck. "I’U check this out
with the proper authori
ties," he told McDaniel,
who then said he thought
the shell would go nicely In
the new city miueum once
It Is opened at the Depot
Center.
Chief Lloyd caUed Fort
Jackson at Columbia, S. C.
and spoke with Ckpt. Rick
Hart, commander of the
48th Ordnance Detach
ment, describing the shell
in detaU.
"Where is the sheU?"
“Sitting on my desk,”
the chief answered.
“Leave It there. Don't
touch It," warned C^>t.
Hart. “I’ll come to Kings
Mountain as soon as I can
to dispose of the shell."
At 3 p. m. Wednesday an
Army helicopter swooped
over the trees and settled
down on a baseball prac
tice field behind Kings
Mountain Senior High.
Capt. Hart and Sp. C5
James Wsdtera deplaned
carrying a foot locker con
taining equipment.
At the chiefs office C^>t.
Hart and Sp.CS Walters
examined the diell and an
nounced that it wsts “a
TBmm lllumlnatlan shell. It
Is the type that Is fired
maybe 3,000 feet udiere the
nose cone Is ejected and
explodes to light iq> a
batUefleld at night."
The shell was stUl Intoct
and was live. Capt. Hart
said It was “probably early
Woild War Two Issue."
How It came to be burled
near the old Southern
Railroad depot In Kings
Mountain Is anybody's
SU6M.
Chief Uoyd took Capt.
Hart and Walters to the
police firing range outside
the dty, where the ex
plosive ordnance dlspoasd
team photographed the
SheU, then Implanted It In
an embankment with a
packet of C4 explosive and
two and a half minute
timer fuse attached.
When the charge went
off It made one heckuva
racket and gouged a fair
shed hole in the em
bankment.
Are such relics as this 76
mm Illumination shell
dangerous? According to
Capt. Hart a youngster
discovered a Uve shell and
managed to set It off. The
youngster had one leg and
part of the other blown
completely off.
“I wondsr If Mr. Mc
Daniel knows >ist how
lucky he la?” the chief
asked no one In particular.
Chief Uoyd told The
Mirror-Herald, "How
about prlnUng a warning In
the paper. Anyone finding
anything looking remotely
like an exploelve device or
military ar(bianoe ahould
leave the object alone and
contact the police. We will
contoct the Army BOD
unit and let them handle
disposal.”
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