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Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations
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Artikel-Nr:
9781531621193
Veröffentl:
2004
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
25.08.2004
Seiten:
130
Autor:
Donald Cann
Gewicht:
419 g
Format:
250x175x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.