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Aftermath of the Port Chicago naval magazine (which is in San Francisco bay) explosion. July 17 1944. 320 dead and 390 wounded. A mutiney of the naval personell assigned to handle high explosives took place soon afterwards. All of them were african-americans and they revolted because of the complete lack of training they had.

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October 1942. Thousands of North American Aviation employees at Inglewood, California, look skyward as the bomber and fighter planes they helped build perform overhead during a lunch period air show. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 'Billy Mitchell' bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 'Mustang' fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe.

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No, this isn't a scene of heavy combat during an invasion of a Pacific island. It's at Pearl Harbor, and these amtracks are being readied to be loaded onto LST's for the upcoming invasion of Saipan. This was Sunday 21 May 1944. A motar round was mishandled during loading, it exploded and started a conflaguration that quickly engulfed several LST's.

This incident and the Port Chicago incident a couple months later forced the USN to radically change training procedures for loading ammunition aboard ships.


 
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