Episode 69: The Port Chicago explosion

EPISODE · Mar 1, 2018 · 1H 2M

Episode 69: The Port Chicago explosion

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The black servicemen who loaded munitions onto ships at Port Chicago Naval Magazine knew it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened. They were hardly trained, rushed to load ships heading for the Pacific theater in World War II, and feared every day that this might be the day one dropped bomb blew them all to smithereens. On July 17, 1944, Port Chicago's number finally came up. But the tragedy which occurred there was not the end of the story. 

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