PORT CHICAGO, Calif. (KGO) -- Seventy-five years ago next week, a quiet naval weapons loading post in the East Bay all but disappeared in a huge fireball, taking hundreds of sailors with it. Next week ...
CONCORD — One hour meant the difference between life and death for Morris Soublet Sr., a 22-year-old sailor assigned during World War II to load ammunition at Port Chicago, a remote naval base ...
Before this trip, I had never heard of the Port Chicago Disaster. And honestly? That’s the problem. After spending the week in Concord, CA, attending events planned around the 81st Anniversary of the ...
The hidden history of Black sailors unjustly punished after the Port Chicago explosion Eighty years ago, 320 people died in a massive explosion at a Navy munitions depot in Port Chicago, California.
View of loading activity at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine munitions pier, circa 1943/44 U.S. Navy/National Park Service Photo Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced the full exoneration of the ...
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*In a historic and long overdue move, the Secretary of the Navy, The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, announced on July 17 the full exoneration of the remaining 256 defendants convicted in the aftermath of ...
*In a historic and long overdue move, the Secretary of the Navy, The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, announced on July 17 the full exoneration of the remaining 256 defendants convicted in the aftermath of ...