The Great Port Chicago Explosion

[TakeBackFreedom]

Nigger smoking around 5000 tons of explosive ordanance, whos carelessness set off Said' Charge

[mrlimmysal]

its was called a Hydrodynamic surface expolsion

[mrlimmysal]

yeah im doing a U.S. report on it as im typing this.. its inconclusive whether it was a low yield atomic or even ammunitions.. The government reclassified a document that could shed light on the actual cause.. once a report was aired claiming that it could have nuclear.. at this time this was the only way to transport...

[MMAmachinhead92]

Though not in a good way of course..

[MMAmachinhead92]

I live in Pittsburg, CA, which is like 4 miles away from where this happen. Not long ago I found out that I lived not far way from the biggest explosion casuality to ever occur in the US. It fascinated me to live somewhere where national history happened..

[archaedemos]

nice vid!!

[CityOFMartinez]

good posting

my aunt lived in Walnut Creek at the time

and she told me it blew all the windows out of her house !!

[mauiluver]

Yes-they even had scientists from Los Alamos investigate Port Cost on the extent of the radius of damage from a large explosion would do. Of course nobody suspected they were working on atomic bomb.

[fernandomfernandes]

Interesting... I know that Port Chicago disaster led the Navy to change its practices. At least *sounds* like we've learnt something from it. Anyway, very good documentary. Thanks for posting!