United States Naval Air Stations of World War II: Western states

United States Naval Air Stations of World War II: Western states
Author: M. L. Shettle
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-08
Genre: Air bases
ISBN: 9780964338814

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This valuable reference is devoted to the history of naval air bases in the Western U.S. that were used during WWII. This unique pictorial history features 375 black and white photographs of the bases, and describes the status and uses of these bases today. Hdbd., 11 1/4x 8 3/4, 288 pgs., 375 bandw ill.

Shawnee Ok Naval Air Station

Shawnee Ok Naval Air Station
Author: Ann McDonald
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781503295865

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Like every other community in the United States when the country went to war, Shawnee, Oklahoma's citizens wanted to do their part. They sent their young men and women into military service, they bought war bonds, planted victory gardens, learned to live with ration stamps, donated scrap metal . . . and they offered their town as a site for a military base. City leaders worked with their congressmen to offer the Municipal Airport for whatever need the government had. Within a few months leases were signed, construction begun and, it seemed overnight a navy base appeared in the farm fields of central Oklahoma. Then just as quickly, it was gone. No longer needed to train navigators about how to guide navy aircraft. But the impact of a having a navy base in Shawnee, Oklahoma, remained for many years.

Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations

Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations
Author: Donald Cann
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738536248

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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.

Quonset Point, Naval Air Station

Quonset Point, Naval Air Station
Author: Sean Paul Milligan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738589589

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The United States Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, RI, originally built as a Neutrality Patrol Seaplane Base, eventually became a unique and fundamentally important asset to the American armed forces. In World War II, more than one half of all U-boats sunk by U.S. aviation--including the first two--were destroyed by Quonset-trained shore and carrier-based squadrons. In the years following World War II, Quonset remained a premier industrial naval air station, sending squadrons or overhauling equipment for use in the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold War conflicts. For thirty-four years and through four wars, the Quonset Point Naval Air Station stood proud and tall on behalf of the United States military.

Quonset Point Naval Air Station

Quonset Point Naval Air Station
Author: Sean Paul Milligan
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1998-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781531600280

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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 air station, sending squadrons or overhauling equipment for use in the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold War conflicts. For 34 years and through four wars, the Quonset Point Naval Air Station stood proud and tall on behalf of the U.S. military. This second volume of Quonset Point images uncovers nearly 200 more scenes of the installation's achievements and activities during the entire period of its service.

The Naval Air Training Bases Thru World War II.

The Naval Air Training Bases Thru World War II.
Author: United States. Naval Air Training Bases, Pensacola, Fla. Office of Public Information
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1946
Genre: Air bases
ISBN:

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