Arizona’s War Town: Flagstaff Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II – Clarkdale
Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United StatesJust weeks after Pearl Harbor, the War Department announced the construction of a massive ammunition depot ten miles west of Flagstaff at Bellemont on U.S. Highway 66. Flagstaff’s population exploded from five to twenty thousand. The Army rushed the $17 million project to completion in a spasm of boomtown upheaval. Several thousand Navajo and Hopi […]