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Omaha Steve

(103,460 posts)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 04:45 PM Jul 2015

7-17-15 Mutiny? Really? in 2:00


I'm behind on history and playing catch up.

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/july-17-mutiny-really/




July 17, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1944. A crew of mostly black soldiers were loading munitions onto ships at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, northeast of Oakland. 320 soldiers were killed by a munitions explosion that wounded another 390 people.

2:00 minute at audio.


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