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"Afternoon
summer winds through Carquinez Strait, across Suisun Bay and up the course
of the Sacramento are most intense in mid- to late afternoon but diminish
an hour or two after sunset when the hot, rising air mass above the solar-heated
interior valleys begins to cool. These were the conditions at 10:30 PM the
evening of July 17, 1944 when a massive explosion at the Port Chicago Naval
Magazine changed the course of history."
Photo
Credit
San Francisco Bay
Area
Source: U.S. Geological
Survey
"For
The Record" interview with Author Peter Vogel
Part 1 (30 min.) and Part
2 (30 min.) 
