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Feb 27, 2013 · Tom Tunney was a NYPD inspector who led a bomb squad and a task force to investigate German spies in New York during World War I. He played a key role in solving the Black Tom explosion, the costliest manmade disaster in American history, by tracing the saboteurs to a German agent.
Learn about the real-life bomb expert who led the New York City Police Department's Bomb Squad during WWI. Find out how he investigated and disrupted German and anarchist plots to sabotage Allied shipping in New York Harbour.
Inspector Thomas J. Tunney, formerlyhead of the bomb squad at Police Headquarters, was retired from the force yesterday on a surgeon's certificate of disability, after twenty-two years' service...
Jan 17, 2012 · Thomas J Tunney was a police officer who led the NYPD Bomb Squad and the Military Intelligence Service to counter the IED threats from Italian, anarchist and German groups during WWI. He wrote a book about his investigations and was demoted after the war.
Oct 6, 2020 · Follows New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, as he hunts for German conspirators on American soil during World War I during a sabotage campaign that began in 1914 when the German ambassador to the U.S., Johann von Bernstoff, was instructed to develop an intelligence network to keep America out of WWI and pre...
Feb 25, 2014 · A fireboat sits amid ruins and debris on the piers at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., on July 30, 1916. ... to the NYPD bomb squad detective who in effect formed an anti-terrorist squad to ...
Inspector Tom Tunney was the head of the NYPD’s Bomb Squad and was subsequently assigned the new and difficult mission . of stopping these foreign agents in a country still at peace and without any real national laws on secrecy or acts of espionage. In 1915, the United States lacked any federal law enforcement organization.
