File:PortChicagoBoxcarRevetment.jpg
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English: Photograph of boxcars within their revetment at Port Chicago Naval Magazine. A Marine sentry is patrolling. Boxcars are crushed from the shockwave of the disastrous explosion that occurred when an ammunition ship detonated on 17 July 1944. |
| Date | shortly after July 17, 1944 |
| Source | http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96822.jpg |
| Author | Photo taken by Mare Island Navy Yard, per http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pl-usa/pl-ca/pt-chgo.htm |
| Other versions | https://web.archive.org/web/20080115073336/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96822.jpg |
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