Port Chicago: The Night 320 Men Vanished and Were Blamed
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Port Chicago: The Night 320 Men Vanished and Were Blamed
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The blast at Port Chicago was visible thirty miles away and registered on Berkeley seismographs, yet the official report omitted training as a cause - and fifty men were later tried under a death-penalty statute. Who decided that untrained men would load 4,600 tons of explosives on a single Liberty ship, and why did it take eighty years for the full truth to reach a verdict?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events on the single pier at Port Chicago, the personnel and decisions that shaped operations there, and the immediate aftermath that transformed a disaster into a civil rights crisis - asking how institutional choices made the catastrophe inevitable.
Person: Captain Merrill T. Kinne
Location: Port Chicago Naval Magazine, Suisun Bay
Date: July 17, 1944
Event: Explosion of SS E. A. Bryan while loading ammunition
Quantity: approximately 4,600 tons of explosives
- 320 men were on the pier loading ammunition at 10:18 PM when the pier, ship, and every man on it vanished.
- The E. A. Bryan was carrying approximately 4,600 tons of explosives including 1,000-pound bombs and Mark 47 depth charges.
- The pier was a single 1,500-foot wooden dock that funneled a significant share of ammunition to the Pacific Theater.
- The Navy’s target set by Captain Nelson Goss was ten short tons per hatch per hour; Port Chicago averaged 8.2 tons per hatch per hour.
- Fifty surviving men were charged with a crime that carried the death penalty after they refused to return to loading duty.
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