Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial

08/15/2025

Remembering the Fallen at the 81st Commemoration of the Port Chicago explosion that took place on July 17, 1944.

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05/26/2025

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Today we honor those who lost their lives in service to this nation. At Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, we remember the Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Merchant Marines, and civilians killed on July 17, 1944 at Port Chicago. In honor of the ultimate sacrifice they made, please join us this Memorial Day in remembering these men, and the many others who have perished in service to our nation.

For information on the victims of the disaster, please visit https://www.nps.gov/poch/learn/historyculture/people.htm

08/19/2024

CBS News Bay Area provided a Special Report on the Port Chicago Exoneration. There is still work to be done for all of the Sailors.

A look back at what led to the Port Chicago disaster of July 17, 1944 when 320 sailors and civilians died in a munitions explosion on Suisun Bay and how a gr...

07/22/2024

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Members of the community gathered on Saturday to remember the lives lost during the 1944 deadly Port Chicago explosion.

07/21/2024

The Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial at the 80th Commemoration of the Port Chicago Disaster.

07/21/2024

The Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial, at the 80th Commemoration of the explosion and in partnership with the National Park Service, honored those who perished in the disaster and celebrated the full exoneration of all Sailors charged with refusing to return to work including the Port Chicago 50 who were additionally charged and convicted of mutiny.

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04/25/2023

We lost a giant today but we walk in his shadow. Thank you for your service to this nation at Port Chicago and your leadership in the Civil Rights Era and beyond. Rest in Power!

Singer, songwriter, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte was in the Navy during World War II, dropping out of high school in New York City to enlist and contribute to the war effort from 1944 to

02/17/2023

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Exonerate the Port Chicago 50!

02/17/2023

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All that is left of a little-known World War II military base on the southern banks of Suisun Bay in California are its skeletal remains. Ravaged by time and Mother Nature, Port Chicago Naval Magazine is all but lost to history—except for the fight that remains to ensure a tragedy there nearly 80 ...

10/17/2022

Join us on November 10, 2022 at 3pm or 6pm Pacific time for a Virtual Commemoration of Veterans Day!

10/17/2022

Learn more about The Port Chicago Disaster. Get The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History in paperback or audiobook at https://tinyurl.com/3nyu4b75

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. Black seamen were required to load ammunition onto ships bound for the South Pacific under the watch of their White officers — an incr...

10/12/2022

Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial will host a Virtual Veterans Day commemoration with a special screening of The Port Chicago Mutiny, by Frank Productions, followed by a joint Q&A Session with the National Park Service. Please Like, Share, and register today!