ammunition dump

[‚am·yə′ni·shən ‚dəmp]

(ordnance)

An ammunition storage point, usually established in the field for temporary use.

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TAIPEI - An ammunition dump built by the colonialist Japanese on an islet in Taiwan's Penghu archipelago in the early 1900s was opened to foreign media for the first time last month.

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In June 1894 the track went into liquidation, but reopened six years later as a jumps-only circuit and thrived until its closure in 1915, whereupon it became a vast ammunition dump overseen by the War Office.

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WITH Able Seaman J Robertson, Leading Seaman John Jessop wiped out a Communist ammunition dump at Wonsan, on the east Korean coast with a bit of "old fashioned gunnery".

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He said the mere presence of such weapons and ammunition dump south of the Litani River represented a "serious violation of Resolution 1701.

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North Vietnamese Army regulars were trying to knock out an ammunition dump with more than 1,000 tons of munitions less than 100 meters from the company perimeter.

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Pakistani has bombed a pro-Taliban group's hideout in northwestern Swat valley, killing a commander and at least 30 fighters and destroying an ammunition dump.

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The two rebel leaders killed in the air strike were closely associated with pro-Taleban religious leader Maulana Fazlullah, a security official said, adding an ammunition dump at the hideout had exploded.

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said over its TamilNet website that two of its aircraft had bombed the Palaly base and also hit ''a major ammunition dump.

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In his book he recounted several of his experiences, including a comic incident when he arranged for a lorry to be nearby with its engine running ready to whisk him away from an ammunition dump he was blowing up.

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Imagine how a Canadian of German origin would have been perceived if in Nazi uniform in 1944 this individual had taken orders to chain a Canadian prisoner as a human shield to a Nazi ammunition dump.

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The former Nato ammunition dump will become Derwent Forest.

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Chad Johnson, who two years ago quarterbacked Army to a victory over rival Navy, is a second lieutenant stationed in Iraq in charge of a 37-man rifle platoon that does night patrols, searches out explosive devices, guards an ammunition dump and is routinely under enemy fire.