Port Chicago disaster

When

17 Jul 1944

Kind

Explosion

Coordinates

38.06° N, 122.03° W

Description

1944 explosion in California, United States

1944 munitions ship explosion in California

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. Most of the dead were African-American sailors.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die beiden Transportschiffe E. A. Bryan und Quainault Victory 7.606 BRT (USA) explodieren bei der Munitionsübernahme in Port Chicago im Norden der Bucht von…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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