Observed arrival · 2026-11-12
The Last Wave from Port Chicago, and a Film Gone Missing
A research page for a planned 2026 edition of Peter Vogel’s book, tracing the 1944 Port Chicago explosion and the search for a short film of it.
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- Readers tracing the Port Chicago explosion and its records
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- The page says each statement carries a numbered source link, while unsettled points are explicitly identified as unsettled.
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The page describes a source system in which numbered claims open to material in a separate column, alongside a section explaining how the checks were made. Its account of the “History of 10,000 Ton Gadget” identifies an eleven-row table of times, distances, pressures, and temperatures as the document that began Vogel’s project. The page also says Vogel’s original book appeared as PDF files on his website and that the site closed in December 2018.
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