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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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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
Graphic reconstruction of the pier, boxcars and ships at Port Chicago just prior to explosion, with estimates of type and weight of cargo Upon leaving Martinez she sailed up Suisun Bay to Port Chicago Naval Magazine , California arriving approximately 6:00 PM (Pacific War Time) in preparation for her maiden voyage. [ 2 ]
More than 250 Black sailors, punished for refusing to return to dangerous work after a powerful munitions explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 sailors in 1944, were fully exonerated by the Navy on ...
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 ...
One person is dead after an explosion sent eight people to hospitals and caused the collapse of a nearby building in Chicago on Tuesday, officials said. 1 dead after Chicago explosion and building ...
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 ...