Title:
Port Chicago Explosion -- Munitions Ships
Date:
July 17, 1944 - July 22, 1944
Subject:
African Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area
Note:
Two military (Merchant Marine) munitions ships, the E.A. Bryan (ship) and the Quinalt Victory (ship) explode at Port Chicago
(Calif.), killing personnel, destroying ships and pier and damaging local businesses and homes. Damaged structures and hospitalized
persons are shown, as well as some Red Cross relief efforts, area residents, repair work on the Southern Pacific station,
and a memorial service for merchant seamen killed. [No African American servicemen are pictured, but, according to the website
of the Dept. of the Navy’s Naval Historical Center (as of July 2003) : "Of the 320 men killed in the explosion, 202 were the
African-American enlisted men who were assigned the dangerous duty of loading the ships. The explosion at Port Chicago accounted
for fifteen percent of all African-American casualties of World War II." Later, many African American survivors were court
martialed for refusal to return to munitions loading duty.] [Only selected images have been digitized.]
Type:
Photographs
Physical Description:
41 negatives (18 selected for digitzation)
Language:
English
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 2, [00065.01-06]
Publisher:
San Francisco Call Bulletin (Firm)
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Port Chicago Explosion -- Munitions Ships