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| Author | : Donald Cann |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738536248 |
The eyes of the United States Navy first focused on Quincy's Squantum peninsula in 1909, when daring young pilots from around the world gathered for the Harvard Air Meet. By the 1930s, the Victory Plant--a destroyer plant that set production records--had come and gone and the navy had set up the nation's first naval reserve aviation training center on the site. When air traffic over Boston Harbor thickened in the 1930s, the navy moved its aerial operations inland to the South Weymouth Naval Air Station. That base and its ubiquitous hangar became South Shore landmarks for more than a half-century. Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations brings back to life the early age of naval aviation on the South Shore, from biplanes to blimps to bombers and beyond.
| Author | : William T. Larkins |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738580401 |
The 56-year history of the Alameda Naval Air Station from 1940 to 1997 was a major military presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. As one of the largest and most important naval air stations in the United States, with a population of 45,000, it occupied 300 buildings to service squadrons and Carrier Air Groups. The large Overhaul and Repair facility operated from 1941 through the jet age, and U.S. Naval Reserve squadrons were added in the postwar years.
| Author | : United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 1947 |
| Genre | : Air bases |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Military bases |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Beverly Roberts Dawson |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738541228 |
In 1923--just 20 years after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk--a Naval Reserve aviation training program was established at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Originally, sea planes and a few small land-based planes were used for primary flight instruction. With the development of heavier, faster military aircraft, the Great Lakes facility became inadequate. Under Rear Adm. John Downes, commandant of the 9th Naval District, the search for a suitable new location was undertaken. Curtiss-Reynolds-Wright Airfield was deemed ideal for relocation of the aviation training program. From humble beginnings as Naval Reserve Aviation Base Chicago, Naval Air Station Glenview (the official U.S. Navy designation) went on to play a vital and unique role during World War II. Until closure in 1995, the base was home to thousands of Navy and Marine Reserve pilots, aircrews, and support personnel--proudly known as weekend warriors."
| Author | : Elsie Mae Cofer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Air bases |
| ISBN | : 9780964992511 |
| Author | : William R. Stein and the PBY-Naval Air Museum |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1467126128 |
Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island in Washington State has a long and storied history that began in 1942 and continues to the present day. Tucked away on an island that is its namesake, NAS Whidbey was originally conceptualized as a small support base for an existing air station in nearby Seattle. That prewar plan was rapidly eclipsed by world events, and the proposed support base quickly evolved into an air station of its own right. Through historic photographs chosen from the archives of the US Navy, the PBY-Naval Air Museum, and the personnel of NAS Whidbey Island, both past and present, the story of the air station is told. These images will serve not only as a trip down memory lane for those stationed at Whidbey in days gone by, but will also illustrate to younger generations their connection to those who served in the not so distant past.
| Author | : James M. Davis |
| Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1574412094 |
James "Jim" Davis piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. He flew support missions for Operations Cobra and Market Garden and numerous bombing missions over occupied Europe in the summer and fall of 1944, attacking enemy airfields, airplane factories, railroad marshalling yards, ship yards, oil refineries, and chemical plants. While he and his crew survived without serious injuries, they witnessed the destruction of many of their friends' planes and experienced serious damage to their own plane on several occasions.
| Author | : U. S. Department Navy |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 2016-10-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781539775898 |
Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved essential to the conduct of Rolling Thunder and by capitalizing on the inherent flexibility and mobility of naval forces, the Seventh Fleet operated with impunity for three years off the coast of North Vietnam. The success with which the Navy executed the later Operation Linebacker campaign against North Vietnam in 1972 revealed how much the service had learned from and exploited the Rolling Thunder experience of 1965-1968.
| Author | : Christian McBurney |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2017-05-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1439660727 |
Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were based in Narragansett and Jamestown. Meanwhile, Rhode Island workers from all over the state - including, for the first time, many women - manufactured military equipment and built warships, most notably the Liberty ships at Providence Shipyard. Authors from the Rhode Island history blog smallstatebighistory.com trace Rhode Island's outsized wartime role, from the scare of an enemy air raid after Pearl Harbor to the war's final German U-boat sunk off Point Judith.
