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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 1, 2022
Caption: The Western Magazine Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (background photo) Building A-148, part of the developing Western Magazine. (1937); (upper center) During times of war the magazines were filled with munitions that supplied the Navy's Pacific operations. Today a row of empty magazines greets the morning sun.; (middle aerial view) The ordnance storage buildings, known as the Western Magazine, were built as the island's shoreline was extended into San Pablo Bay. (circa 1949), Magazine Loading Pier, The Production Manufacturing Area of the Naval Ammunition Depot. (circa 1948); (middle right) Loading munitions from railcars into the heavy cruiser USS Rochester. (1953)
Submitted: September 8, 2023, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p748499
File Size: 5.038 Megabytes

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