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The Port of Chicago on the far South Side is planning around $200 million in investment over the new few years.
Hiram Crittenden was the first volunteer to pursue a new legal strategy to restore honor to U.S. Navy sailors stationed at Port Chicago in Contra Costa County, where a massive explosion during ...
Eighty years after explosions ripped through the Port Chicago naval facility in California, killing 320 sailors, Coast Guard personnel and civilians, the secretary of the Navy announced Wednesday ...
LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: 80, years ago, 320 people were killed in a massive explosion at a navy munitions depot in Port Chicago, California. About two-thirds of the people killed were black sailors who ...
In July 1944, World War II was raging in the Pacific. U.S. forces were in desperate need of ammunition, and Port Chicago in northern California became a critical supply point. At the time ...
Roosevelt. Eighty years ago, in perhaps the worst home-front disaster of World War II, a series of explosions in the ammunition depot at Port Chicago, near San Francisco, killed 320 U.S. Navy ...
Exactly 80 years to the day after the Port Chicago 50 were wrongfully convicted, a new monument was unveiled on Yerba Buena Island on Thursday, where their trial took place. Carol Cherry and her ...