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TNT and torpex charge weight, probable causes and origin
of the Port Chicago explosion.
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"'The
investigator's problem is to decide which of the two documentary records
presents the true position of the railroad cars upon the pier at the time
of the explosion. Because this investigation of the Port Chicago explosion
is principally directed to elucidate the role of the Manhattan Project
Los Alamos Laboratories in the Port Chicago explosion the records available
in the Archives of Los Alamos National Laboratory that describe the position
of the railroad cars on the Port Chicago Magazine pier at the time of
the explosion will be taken as valid-except one important error in that
Los Alamos record that will be described."
Photo Credit
Explosive material
on pier and on board S.S. "Bryan" prior to detonation on 17
July 1944 at U.S. Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, California. Source:
Prepared by Naval Ammunition Depot, Mare Island (NAD No. 83044-1),
Source:
U.S. National Archives, Pacific Sierra Region, Record Group 181, 12th
Naval District Commandant's Office, General Correspondence Series, 1946.
Available at: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq80-4b3.jpg
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