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	Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly explosion that took place on July 17, 1944 at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, in the United States.
		The town of Port Chicago, California, was located on Suisun Bay in the estuary of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, connected to the Pacific Ocean via San Francisco Bay.
		The cause of the explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine was never determined, although it was attributed to some sort of mistake in the loading of the torpedoes and other ordnance into the ship, which was notoriously difficult work, especially under rushed conditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster (847 words)

	Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial at the Concord Naval Weapons Station near Concord, California recognizes the critcal role Port Chicago played in World War II by serving as the main facility for the Pacific Theater.
		At Port Chicago, 320 men were instantly killed when the munition ships they were loading with ammunition and bombs for the Pacific Rim troops mysteriously blew up.
		The Port Chicago Committee is working toward expanding the current memorial to encompass 250 acres of the former Port Chicago waterfront.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Chicago_Naval_Magazine_National_Memorial (338 words)

	Port Chicago - Blast and Aftermatch
		On the evening of July 17th, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Munitions base located on San Francisco Bay, the largest state-side military disaster of WWII occurred, killing 320 men and injuring another 390 men on the base.
		By sheer size of the blast, the Port Chicago explosion was as large as a 5-kiloton bomb.
		Others were ordered or volunteered to stay behind at Port Chicago to clear debris and set about the grim task of searching for and removing what was left of the bodies of their fallen mates.
	www.portchicagomutiny.com /history/history.html (1991 words)

	Port Chicago
		But in 1944, at the time of the Port Chicago blast, the belief was that the United States did not have any type of aircraft capable of carrying a bomb, nor airfields close enough to Japan to carry such a weapon.
		It was during the second explosion that the white flash and the mushroom cloud was reported.
		Was the Port Chicago blast caused by a nuclear explosion?
	www.sonic.net /sentinel/usa5.html (8078 words)

	Port Chicago, CA, Explosion
		Port Chicago, California, located 35 miles north of San Francisco, proved an ideal place for the Navy to expand its munitions facilities.
		Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial is administered by the National Park Service and the United States Navy.
		It honors the memory of those who gave their lives and were injured in the explosion on 17 July 1944, recognizes those who served at the magazine, and commemorates the role of the facility during World War II.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq80-1.htm (1391 words)

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		At the time of the Port Chicago explosion the United States involvement in the Pacific war was largely focused on maritime battles and the need for a "port buster" was of the highest importance.
		Port Chicago was never abandoned, although the Navy immediately began to use the Army facilities at a Richmond dock as a temporary replacement.
		After the Port Chicago explosion, James B. Conant, a critical figure in the development of a nuclear bomb, wrote a memorandum suggesting putting the Mark II on the shelf after a July 1944 test, a test never recorded in any public annals, but paralleling the date of the Port Chicago explosion.
	www.sonic.net /sentinel/usa4.html (8124 words)

	FTR-163 Interview with Peter Vogel: Update on Port Chicago (Two 30-minute segments) $8
		(Port Chicago is now part of the Concord Naval Weapons station.) Critics have maintained that Port Chicago could not have been a nuclear explosion, because there would be detectable radiation at the explosion site.
		The British test was of a 25 kiloton weapon and Port Chicago yielded the equivalent of 600 tons of TNT.
		(Peter's research indicates that the Port Chicago explosion, in July of '44, was the test of the Mark II.) Recently, Peter filed a Freedom of Information Act request for access to the seven linear feet of documents about the Port Chicago explosion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
	www.spitfirelist.com /f163.html (419 words)

	The Great WWII Port Chicago Disaster - A Nuclear Blast?
		Four days after the Port Chicago disaster, on 21st July 1944 a Naval Court of Inquiry was convened to "inquire into the circumstances attending the explosion." The inquiry was to establish the facts of the situation, and the Court was to arrive at an opinion concerning the cause or causes of the disaster.
		According the Navy, the film was created to support their argument to the US Congress sometime in the 1960s that the remains of the town of Port Chicago be purchased by the Navy and incorporated into the Concord Naval Weapons Station as a buffer zone in the event of another large explosion.
		These investigations included the formation of the shock wave in the air, the radiation history of the early stages of the explosion, the formation of the ball of fire, the attenuation of the blast wave in air at greater distances, and the effects of blasts and radiations of [sic] human beings and structures.
	www.rense.com /general5/blast.htm (11822 words)

	Picture This: World War II/Post War Era
		The Port Chicago Naval Munitions base, located where the Sacramento River flows into San Francisco Bay, was used during the World War II to load munitions onto ships headed to the Pacific Ocean.
		The tragedy caused shock and grief among all the Port Chicago survivors.
		The Port Chicago incident was part of a series of events that changed American society in general and American policy specifically.
	www.museumca.org /picturethis/4_4.html (625 words)

	FTR#444—Interview with Peter Vogel (The Author of The Last Wave from Port Chicago)—(Two 30-minute segments) (The ...
		Officially the explosion of conventional munitions aboard an ammunition ship, the E.A. Bryan, the Port Chicago blast was actually the test of an early atomic weapon, the autocatalytic uranium hydride lateral implosion experimental device—named the Mark II.
		After relating Peter’s long odyssey exploring the explosion and the official dissembling that surrounds the event, the program relates the fascinating documentary trail confirming the nature of the explosion and the chronology of this early, significant step in the development of the atomic weapons.
		Peter: After noting that the Port Chicago explosion was relatively low-yield and that the blast was attenuated by the hull of the E.A. Bryan, Peter notes that the background radiation level would have returned to normal within a relatively short time after the explosion.
	www.spitfirelist.com /f444.html (2050 words)

	[JAG] "Port Chicago"
		"Port Chicago" -- A survivor of the disastrous 1944 Port Chicago explosion asks the Secretary of the Navy to clear all mutiny charges from his service record and those of his shipmates, on JAG, Tuesday, April 9 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
		A survivor of the disastrous 1944 Port Chicago explosion asks the Secretary of the Navy to clear all mutiny charges from his service record and those of his shipmates.
		In 1944, an explosion at the Port Chicago naval munitions base in California killed 320 men, most of whom were fl.
	www.onscreen-credits.com /JAG/20020409g.html (675 words)

	iWannaGetThat - Retroville - 1944 - In the News - Port Chicago Explosion
		Two transport vessels loading ammunition at the naval base in Port Chicago, California, on the Sacramento River were suddenly the center of an enormous explosion.
		It docked at Port Chicago on July 13, 1944, and at 8 a.m.
		In those documents, the government claims that the explosion was spontaneous ignition of the munitions.
	www.iwannagetthat.com /NewFiles/1944-port-chicago-explosion.html (756 words)

	Find in a Library: Port Chicago Naval Magazine explosion on 17 July 1944 Court of Inquiry, finding of facts, opinions ...
		Find in a Library: Port Chicago Naval Magazine explosion on 17 July 1944 Court of Inquiry, finding of facts, opinions and recommendations.
		Port Chicago Naval Magazine explosion on 17 July 1944 Court of Inquiry, finding of facts, opinions and recommendations.
		Subjects: Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/d045d4282120a37ba19afeb4da09e526.html (127 words)

	Background Radiation Measurements near Port Chicago
		The elevated background radiation is downwind across Suisun Bay from the Concord Naval Weapons Center (formerly known as Port Chicago.) Residents of the Bay Area, particularly Contra Costa and Solano Counties, and the media have reason to ask what has happenned there that could explain elevated background radiation levels downwind from the base.
		At the time this page was first written in July 2004, it was the 60th anniversary of the accident at Port Chicago on July 17, 1944, where a munitions ship exploded The explosion was so large that some myths and urban legends claim it was a nuclear accident, a year earlier than the Trinity test.
		The effects of the explosion were apparently of interest to the Manhattan Project, and their people arrived within days to study the effects of such a large explosion.
	ian.kluft.com /pc44 (4139 words)

	Port Chicago Naval Magazine: Court of Inquiry
		Port Chicago was remote from industrial activities, in a sparsely settled area, had deep tide water along the northern boundary, and was served by two transcontinental railways.
		From time to time, Port Chicago was required to transfer drafts of men with clear records, thus further reducing the general level of those remaining.
		There was an initial major explosion followed by minor explosions and burning for a period of from three to six seconds and culminating in a mass explosion.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/fac/PC/PC-Findings.html (13002 words)

	paranormal
		She and Tart assumed that the explosion took place when the window shook, making her experience inexplicable by the known laws of physics.
		Tart was born in 1937 and the Port Chicago explosion occurred in 1944.
		But that what had happened, she found out the next day, was that about 30 miles away in a little town called Port Chicago a munitions ship had exploded and killed several hundred people simultaneously.
	www.skepdic.com /paranormal.html (1084 words)

	Port Chicago Explosion and Mutiny
		Because of the navy's official policy of segregation, fl enlistees at Port Chicago were restricted to ammunition loading, the most dangerous and physically demanding work at the base.
		At the appeal, NAACP Legal Defense Fund director Thurgood Marshall introduced evidence that the fl enlistees at Port Chicago were restricted to the most dangerous work, given no special training in ammunition loading, subjected to forced competition by officers, and systematically barred from receiving promotion.
		The fifty Port Chicago mutineers were released from prison, but were held on Navy ships for several months as a "probationary period" before receiving dishonorable discharges from the service.
	www.webspawner.com /users/PortofChicago (987 words)

	Port Chicago, CA, Explosion: Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Record of the Board of Investigation into the damage inflicted by the Port Chicago explosion, Exhibit Port Chicago Explosion, Document C to EDDD, Exhibits 2482 and 2483, Volumes I and II, log number 9533.
		Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry into the Port Chicago Explosion, volumes 1 through 8, log number 9788 (file A17-25).
		Courts martials records relating to the Port Chicago mutiny consist of 1700 pages of documents.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq80-2.htm (377 words)

	LP: Port Chicago: Epilog - it was a nuclear blast
		LP: Port Chicago: Epilog - it was a nuclear blast
		Port Chicago: Epilog - it was a nuclear blast
		In the second article of this series we quoted declassified letters from one of the top people in the Manhattan Project which referred to a secret detonation of the low-yield atomic bomb in July 1944, designated the Mark II.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=80714 (3286 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		These railroads spurred the development of industry in the county throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly driving development of the Standard Oil (now Chevron) refinery and port complex in Richmond.
		There were a large number of short lines in the county between the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
		Port Chicago was bought out and demolished by the Federal Government to form a safety zone near the Naval Weapons Station loading docks.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Contra_Costa_County,_California (3303 words)

	The Last Wave from Port Chicago - Author Peter Vogel
		The Last Wave from Port Chicago - Author Peter Vogel
		The result of a 20+ year investigation into the July 17 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine.
		This web-based book chronicles the total history of the explosion and connections with Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project.
	www.portchicago.org (48 words)

	Congressman Miller's Port Chicago Page
		December 23, 1999 -- Press Release -- Clinton Pardons Freddie Meeks, Port Chicago Sailor, of "Mutiny"; Representative Miller Hails President, Sailors and their Families.
		September 22, 1999 -- Congressman Miller and staff are presented with an award from the WW II Black Navy Veterans of Great Lakes, Inc. for their work to clear the names of 50 fl sailors charged with mutiny following a huge explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1944.
		September 1, 1999 -- Update from Representative Miller on Port Chicago.
	www.house.gov /georgemiller/ptchicmain.html (279 words)

	Search Tuna Report for explosions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		However, there are only two types of explosions that the first responder or investigator will generally encounter, Mechanical and Chemical and several subtypes within these categories.
		The types of explosions are generally differentiated by the source or mechanism by which explosive Mechanical explosions are those in which a high pressure gas produces a physical reaction, vessel failure or rupture of the container.
		Description: exÂ·ploÂ·sion (K-Spl ' zhÉ™n) N. A Release Of Mechanical, Chemical, Or Nuclear Energy In A Sudden And Often Violent Manner With The Generation Of....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3092.html (747 words)

	Congressman George Miller with World War II Veterans from the Port Chicago Explosion (September 22, 1999)
		Congressman George Miller with World War II Veterans from the Port Chicago Explosion (September 22, 1999)
		On September 22, in Congressman George Miller's Washington office, members of the WWII Black Navy Veterans of Great Lakes presented Congressman Miller an award for his decade-long effort to clear the names of 50 fl sailors charged with mutiny following a huge explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1944.
		Miller, as well as to Susan Kidd, reporter for WRC-TV channel 4 in Washington for her television coverage that has brought attention to the Port Chicago issue.
	www.house.gov /georgemiller/ptcpics.html (167 words)

	Re: Port Chicago Explosion [2 msgs with URLs] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Re: Port Chicago Explosion [2 msgs with URLs]
		======================================================================= Subject: Port Chicago From: [Withheld by request] Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:12:00 Some time ago I ran across an interesting series of documentary articles, one of which is at this url: files at http://www.freeamerica.com/usa4.html.
		Financial support for this web server is provided by the Research Center Catalog.
	www.ufomind.com /area51/list/1997/feb/a14-003.shtml (127 words)

	UNC-Chapel Hill Manuscripts Department Annual Report, 2004-2005
		The collection includes correspondence, official United States Navy documents, and photographs, 1921-1969, with the bulk dating 1943-1946.
		Letters deal with the Port Chicago explosion and its aftermath, as well as Rendleman's daily life during his service in Guam; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan.
		Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley Collection (#20329): The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to conserve and protect the natural, cultural, and historic resources of North Carolina's Eno River basin.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/anrep0405.html (7420 words)

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