Families and advocates say the Navy has not corrected the records of World War II sailors stationed in Contra Costa County.

Families and advocates say the Navy has not corrected the records of World War II sailors stationed in Contra Costa County.

Names of the servicemen and civilians killed in the accident are inscribed in granite at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial in Concord on Feb. 7, 2015. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco ...

On July 17, 1944, munitions being loaded onto a cargo ship detonated, causing secondary blasts that ignited 5,000 tons of explosives at Port Chicago naval weapons station near San Francisco.

This image shows African American Sailors of a naval ordnance battalion unloading aerial bombs from a railcar, circa 1943/44, in Port Chicago, Calif. (Naval History and Heritage Command/National Park ...