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Mare Island Lecture/Tour: Absorbing the Shock of Port Chicago: Losing Weapons Transshipments Across the Pacific Theater
July 19 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
The Allied invasion of Europe was a little over one month old and the Pacific Campaign was ramping up when a tremendous explosion obliterated the Navy’s ammunition transshipment facility at Port Chicago in the North Bay Area of San Francisco. In an instant 320 lives were snuffed out and the supply of needed ammunition was cut off to the largest battlefield the world had ever seen.
Join us for this free lecture/tour program to learn more about criticality of Port Chicago to the fight in the Pacific, and the role that Mare Island played in both the refusal of black sailors to return to work under unsafe working conditions and their vital role in supplying desperately needed ammunition to those at the point of the spear.
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