Death Comes to the Torpedo Factory

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THE U.S. NAVAL Torpedo Station, more commonly known in later years as the Torpedo Factory, was a monstrous complex of buildings spread along the Potomac River waterfront in what is known as the Old Town section of Alexandria, Virginia.

The factory opened in 1918 near the end of World War I and went into mothballs a few years later when peace was declared, thereafter serving as a munitions storage depot for several years. It re-opened as a factory at the start of World War II to manufacture the Mark-14 torpedoes as well as warheads, propellers and engines, at one time employing over 5000 people. It sat idle after the second big war to save humanity until it was appropriated by various government agencies to store Congressional documents, artifacts for the Smithsonian and war records – mainly dossiers, films and photographs of the German war effort – including transcripts of the famous Nuremburg trials.

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