Author: Walter K Schroder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685704073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Defense of Narragansett Bay in WWII
Author: Walter K Schroder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685704073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780685704073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II
Author: Walter K. Schroder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Defending America's Coasts, 1775-1950
Author: Dale E. Floyd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Untold Stories from World War II Rhode Island
Author: Christian McBurney
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439668329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Following the success of World War II Rhode Island, author Christian McBurney returns, with new coauthors Norman Desmarais and Varoujan Karentz, to present extraordinary personal stories of local contributions to the war effort. From John F. Kennedy's training as a PT boat commander at Melville to George H.W. Bush's training as a pilot at Charlestown, the smallest state played an oversized role preparing navy officers and sailors. Important innovations are credited here too. Radar used on night-flying aircraft was developed at Jamestown's Spraycliff Observatory and tested at Charlestown, and at Davisville, Seabees developed a pontoon aircraft landing field tested on Narragansett Bay. Scituate was home to the nation's most successful spy listening station. After these and more captivating stories are revealed, the final chapter details existing World War II sites across the state readers can visit.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439668329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Following the success of World War II Rhode Island, author Christian McBurney returns, with new coauthors Norman Desmarais and Varoujan Karentz, to present extraordinary personal stories of local contributions to the war effort. From John F. Kennedy's training as a PT boat commander at Melville to George H.W. Bush's training as a pilot at Charlestown, the smallest state played an oversized role preparing navy officers and sailors. Important innovations are credited here too. Radar used on night-flying aircraft was developed at Jamestown's Spraycliff Observatory and tested at Charlestown, and at Davisville, Seabees developed a pontoon aircraft landing field tested on Narragansett Bay. Scituate was home to the nation's most successful spy listening station. After these and more captivating stories are revealed, the final chapter details existing World War II sites across the state readers can visit.
Dutch Island and Fort Greble
Author: Walter K. Schroder
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752408972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752408972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
World War II Rhode Island
Author: Christian McBurney
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439660727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439660727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
An Interpretive Atlas of Narragansett Bay
Author: Stephen B. Olsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bays
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bays
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author: Worrall Reed Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logistics, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logistics, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A Companion to American Military History
Author: James C. Bradford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444315110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military history from the colonial era to thepresent. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian andimperial conflicts of the seventeenth century to the battles inAfghanistan and Iraq Features an unprecedented breadth of coverage from eminentmilitary historians and emerging scholars, including little studiedtopics such as the military and music, military ethics, care of thedead, and sports Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Summarizes current debates and identifies areas whereconflicting interpretations are in need of further study
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444315110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military history from the colonial era to thepresent. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian andimperial conflicts of the seventeenth century to the battles inAfghanistan and Iraq Features an unprecedented breadth of coverage from eminentmilitary historians and emerging scholars, including little studiedtopics such as the military and music, military ethics, care of thedead, and sports Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Summarizes current debates and identifies areas whereconflicting interpretations are in need of further study
United States Army in World War II.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description