12/19/2008 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. While clearing land with dynamite charges on a growing range facility at Eglin Field in 1943, an accident claimed the lives of 17 men. On July 12, 15 African-American enlisted men followed their two captains out to the Eglin range to see why the explosive ordnance they'd set hadn't gone off. See the story of the Eglin 17.
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