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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.
Map of the United States with Wyoming highlighted. Wyoming is a state in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Wyoming is the least populous state with 576,851 inhabitants but the 9th largest by land area spanning 97,093.14 square miles (251,470.1 km 2) of land. [1]
Map Albany County: 001: Laramie: 1868: One of the original five counties. City of Albany, New York, from which early settlers hailed. 38,257: 4,274 sq mi (11,070 km 2) Big Horn County: 003: Basin: 1896: Parts of Sheridan County, Johnson County, and Fremont County. Big Horn Mountains, a mountain range extending into northern Wyoming: 12,018: ...
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.
The Bay Point post office operated from 1897 to 1931, when it became the Port Chicago post office, closing in 1969 when the town ceased to exist. [2] The July 17, 1944, Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion that occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine. Munitions detonated while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the ...
On July 17, 1944, at 10:18 p.m., two major explosions occurred 6 seconds apart in what became known as the Port Chicago disaster. The detonation of 4,600 tons of munitions being loaded onto the Quinault Victory and E.A. Bryan, registered at a magnitude of 3.4 on the seismograph at the University of California, Berkeley, some 20 miles away.
Johnson County is a county in the north central part of the U.S. state of Wyoming.At the 2020 United States Census, the population was 8,447. [1] The county seat is Buffalo. [2]
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