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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