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Port Chicago 50: Joe Small, the 1944 Explosion and the Navy Mutiny Trial
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In 1944 Joseph Randolph Small was a winch operator in Division Four at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine on Suisun Bay near San Francisco, one of many African American sailors trained at Naval Station Great Lakes but assigned as stevedores loading munitions in a segregated Navy. The episode…