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Vintage black and white scene of a cratered muddy road after a 1927 explosion in Western Pennsylvania, with an overturned escort car, a damaged armored truck, and men in coats and caps watching from a distance.

The 1927 Armored Car Bombing “Dante’s Inferno”

Events & Turning PointsBy userFebruary 23, 2026

The Day Someone Blew Up a Payroll Convoy Near Pittsburgh On a quiet South Hills road on the morning of March 11, 1927, the ground exploded. Not metaphorically. Not as a figure of speech. Someone had buried hundreds of pounds of black powder beneath the roadbed, waited for a Brink’s payroll convoy to roll over…

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