Pacific Island Times Staff
Jul 18, 20171 min
If you were a stateside civilian in 1944, there was a pretty good chance that you were toiling in a defense plant, grinding out the war materiel to support the troops. Ships, tanks, planes and all sorts of similar goods were being produced. But in this rush, rush atmosphere, particularly when high explosives were involved, mistakes were made and accidents happened. The Port Chicago blast in California was one of the worst.