It’s been 85 years since the War Department announced July 3, 1941, the Army would build a chemical munitions plant in Huntsville.
We were preparing for World War II; and this would be the Army’s second chemical plant since Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.
What has evolved in the past eight and a half decades has been an American success story. Huntsville, today’s Rocket City, and North Alabama have developed with Redstone Arsenal. America’s space program was born out of the Army at Redstone with the creation of NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center…