Quonset Point, Naval Air Station: Volume II

by Sean Paul Milligan

The United States Naval Air Station at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, originally built as a Neutrality Patrol seaplane base, became a unique and fundamental asset to our nation's armed forces.

In World War II, more than half of all U-boats sunk by U. S. aviation were destroyed by Quonset-trained shore and carrier-based squadrons. In the years following World War II, Quonset Point Naval Air Station remained a premier industrial naval...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738500372
• ISBN13: 9780738500379
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"