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  2. Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Port Chicago Committee is working toward expanding the current memorial to encompass 250 acres (1.0 km 2) of the former Port Chicago waterfront.The memorial site could include some of the railroad revetments and old boxcars from the 1940s period, as well as the existing memorial chapel, with stained-glass windows depicting the World War II operations.

  3. Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States. Munitions being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations detonated, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring at least 390 others.

  4. Port Chicago, California - Wikipedia

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    Port Chicago was a town on the southern banks of Suisun Bay, in Contra Costa County, California. It was located 6.5 miles (10 km) east-northeast of Martinez, [2] at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m). It is best known as the site of a devastating explosion at its Naval Munitions Depot during World War II.

  5. Concord Naval Weapons Station - Wikipedia

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    The station functioned as a World War II armament storage depot, supplying ships at Port Chicago. During World War II it also had a Naval Outlying Field at the southern edge of the base. It ceased being an operating airfield after World War II.

  6. List of museum ships of the United States military - Wikipedia

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    USS Arizona Memorial, Sunken Wreck [5] USS Barry: United States District of Columbia: Washington D.C. United States. 1955 Forrest Sherman class: Destroyer: scrapped Brownsville, Texas, 11 February 2022 USS Batfish: United States Oklahoma: Muskogee: United States: 1943 Balao class: Submarine: Muskogee War Memorial Park [6] Bauru: Brazil: Rio de ...

  7. List of national memorials of the United States - Wikipedia

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    National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...

  8. Port Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Port Chicago can refer to: Port Chicago, California, former town in the United States; Port Chicago disaster, deadly explosion that occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California on 17 July 1944, killing 320 people; Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, at the site of the disaster

  9. John E. Rankin - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, Rankin alleged that the U.S. Army's loss of a certain battle was due to the cowardice of black soldiers. Fellow Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas replied that many black soldiers had been decorated for bravery despite serving in a segregated Army. [26] Rankin was known to use the slur "nigger" on the floor of the House.