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Crude Awakening: Montebello

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If it leaks, a sunken tanker holding 3 million gallons of oil could mean a Central Coast disaster.

It was two days before Christmas in 1941, barely two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The crew of the Montebello knew there were Japanese submarines off the California coast, but they voted to ...

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