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Port Chicago Disaster: Not far outside San Francisco, 1944, US Navy taskmasters supervise mostly black, untrained enlistedmen in loading munitions into ships to go blow up Japanese and Germans. Units have speed-loading competitions and bets with each other, literally resulting in loading crews chucking live munitions into hatches. Eventually somebody drops something too hard and everything explodes, killing 320 and wounding 390. Pieces of the ship's anchor were flung 12,000 feet into the air, landing high on the slopes of nearby Mt. Diablo.
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The anchor got blown from Port Chicago to Mt. Diablo that's crazy. Nice little bay area knowledge nugget thanks for sharing.