REVIEW OF PORT CHICAGO COURT-MARTIAL CASES.

SEC. 552. REVIEW OF PORT CHICAGO COURT-MARTIAL CASES.The Secretary of the Navy shall carry out without delay a thorough review of the cases of all 258 individuals convicted in the courts-martial arising from the explosion at the Port Chicago (California) Naval Magazine on July 17, 1944. The purpose of the review shall be to determine the validity of the original findings and sentences and the extent, if any, to which racial prejudice or other improper factors now known may have tainted the original investigations and trials. If the Secretary determines that the conviction of an individual in any such case was in error or an injustice, then, notwithstanding any other provision of law, he may correct that individual’s military records (including the record of the court-martial in such case) as necessary to rectify the error or injustice.