A ceremony on Saturday in Vallejo will pay tribute to the black sailors known as the Port Chicago 50.
A massive munitions explosion at the U.S. Navy installation at Port Chicago in Contra Costa County on July 17, 1944, killed 320 men, critically injured hundreds more, destroyed two ships and badly damaged the town that once existed there. Of the dead, 202 were African American.
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