The December 2, 1943 Air Raid on the Italian port of Bari was not just a disaster for the allies, but an embarrassment whose full details were hidden for more than a decade.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.