UC Berkeley NewsCenter » Port Chicago http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Thu, 23 May 2013 22:42:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Bancroft historians search for first-hand accounts as Port Chicago memorial approaches http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/14/port-chicago-roho/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/14/port-chicago-roho/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:16:12 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13958 Bancroft historians search for first-hand accounts as Port Chicago memorial approachesOfficials at UC Berkeley’s Regional Oral History Office are looking to a July 23 memorial service for the hundreds of servicemen and civilians killed and hurt in the largest homeland disaster during World War II to aid the office’s search for first-hand accounts of the 1944 accident that helped desegregate the U.S. military.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/14/port-chicago-roho/feed/ 0