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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.
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The national memorial is located at the Military Ocean Terminal Concord (formerly 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 ...
English: Aerial photo of Port Chicago Naval Magazine taken between December 1942 when the first ship was loaded and July 1944 when the pier was destroyed by a catastrophic ammunition detonation. Date between 1942 and 1944
Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.. The police officers and firefighter were ...
Earlier, Chinese state media said an explosion was reported at the port and shockwaves were felt a kilometre away. Yang Ming Marine Transport said a fire occurred on board the YM Mobility while it ...
[18] [19] SS E. A. Bryan detonated with the energy of 2,000 tons of TNT (8,400 GJ) in July 1944 as it was being loaded, killing 320 sailors and civilians in what was called the Port Chicago disaster. Another Liberty ship that exploded was the rechristened SS Grandcamp , which caused the Texas City Disaster on 16 April 1947, killing at least 581 ...
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