13.02.2019
The Navy called them 'mutineers.' But were they really scapegoats?
On July 17, 1944, the SS E. A. Bryan, a newly-commissioned Liberty ship, was moored to a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, to load ammunition, bombs, and artillery rounds for the upcoming invasion of Tinian, in the Northern Mariana Islands. Under the glare of dockside lights, ...