The Port Chicago Disaster by Charles River Editors (.ePUB)
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The Port Chicago Disaster: The History of America’s Deadliest Homeland Incident during World War II by Charles River Editors
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Overview: This was undoubtedly the case with the notorious Port Chicago disaster, a munitions explosion in July 1944 that killed over 300 people and injured over 300 more, many of them Navy sailors. Since the explosion took place just a little over a month after D-Day, not to mention the fact that a majority of the casualties were African-American, little attention was paid to the tragedy. Among those who did, some believed the men had not been trained well enough, while others said that they were being pushed by their officers to race each other in work that should have been done slowly and carefully. The only thing everyone could agree on was that something went very wrong.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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