!THEY CALLED IT MUTINY! THE PORT CHICAGO EXPLOSION

From: Sea Classics | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Canyon, Laurel; Canyon, Steve | Copyright information

Forced to load ammunition under brutal wartime conditions, the enlisted survivors of a tragic ammunition ship explosion at Port Chicago, California, refused to go back to work. Their act labeled a "mutiny," the sailor's work stoppage set in motion a dramatic court martial which would forever alter the way in which black sailors would be treated in the US Navy

America was swept into WWII on 7 December 1941. As war in the Pacific expanded, the Naval Ammunition Depot at Mare Island, Calif...

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