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Port Chicago disaster
Port Chicago, California. 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.
The national memorial is located at the Concord Naval Weapons Station near Concord, California, in the United States. The 1944 Port Chicago disaster occurred at the naval magazine and resulted in the largest domestic loss of life during World War II. A total of 320 sailors and civilians were instantly killed on July 17, 1944, when the ships ...
Concord Naval Weapons Station was a military base established in 1942 north of the city of Concord, California at the shore of the Sacramento River where it widens into Suisun Bay. 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 ...
The 'Port Chicago today' section is too short for a stand-alone section, the 'Nuclear bomb theory' should be integrated with the material on the blast and is probably too long (it could be summarised in a short paragraph given that it appears to have been a fringe theory which has been abandoned by its promoter) and the 'Incident in popular ...
The Fort Lawton riot refers to a series of events in August 1944 starting with a violent conflict between U.S. soldiers and Italian prisoners of war at Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington during World War II. [ 1] After the riot, prisoner Guglielmo Olivotto was found dead. [ nb 1] This led to the court-martial of 43 soldiers, all of them African ...
Network. NBC. Release. 28 March 1999. ( 1999-03-28) Mutiny is a 1999 television drama film based on the story of the Port Chicago disaster during World War II where 50 African-American sailors were accused of mutiny because they declined to continue loading munitions after an explosion caused by failures in training and management.
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