According to the newspaper and documentation, it happened on the evening of 17 July 1944 at 10:18pm, the empty merchant ship SS Quinault Victory was prepared for loading, another ship the SS E.A. Bryan, also a merchant ship, had just returned from her first voyage and was loading across the platform. The Workers in the area were 320 cargo handlers, crewmen and sailors. When the explosives went off all 320 men on duty that night were killed instantly. The blast had a seismic shock wave was felt as far away as Boulder City, Nevada. A plane flying at 9,000 feet reported seeing chunks of white hot metal as big as a house flying past them. The fire and smoke stretched over two miles into the sky above Port Chicago, largest remaining pieces of the 7,200-ton ship were the size of a suitcase. The blast caused damage 48 miles across the Bay in San Francisco. Glad I wasnt around to see it happen…At the Roe Island Lighthouse, keeper Erven Scott saw a plume of smoke and flame rising above Port Chicago and a 20-30 foot high wave rolling toward the lighthouse from the direction of the explosion. He dashed back downstairs with the baby, by the time the tidal wave reached Roe Island, it had expended most of its energy. Still, it hit with such force to push the lighthouse about 40 feet up on the beach. People have mentioned and can argue that the flash and cloud observed at Port Chicago bear considerable similarity to the description of the mushroom clouds from the atomic bomb detonations over Japan in WWII. You will also find reports stating people being burnt all the way to Vallejo & extreme cancer rates from that date forward in the area. The Martin Article that was written claims that Contra Costa county, where the blast occurred had the “One of the highest rates of Caner in the United States” throughout the years. Professor Ernest Sternglass was a Radiologist at the University of Pittsburg who specialized in Radiation Physics, well-known for his work on nuclear fallout from bomb tests and nuclear power plants, and its effects on the population, especially children. He feels that the blast in Port Chicago could have been a nuclear explosion!
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:07:45 +0000
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