Author : M. L. Shettle
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Air bases
ISBN : 9780964338814
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.
Author : United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Air bases
ISBN :
Author : Mel L. Shettle
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
Author : M. L. Shettle
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Air bases
ISBN : 9780964338807
Beskrivelse af US Navy's flyvepladser i det østlige USA.
Author : Ann McDonald
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781503295865
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.
Author : Donald Cann
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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 : Sean Paul Milligan
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1998-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531600280
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.
Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1955
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Joseph E. Salvatore M.D.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 143963839X
Commissioned on April 1, 1943, Naval Air Station Wildwood trained thousands of U.S. Navy airmen during World War II. Located in southern New Jersey on a peninsula bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay, the air station was perfectly sited to provide them with the over-water practice they needed for fighting the Japanese fleet in the western Pacific theater. Some of the war's most lethal bombers-Helldivers and TBM-3E Avengers among them-were flown by members of naval fighter, dive-bombing, and torpedo-bombing squadrons based at the station from 1943 until 1945. At least 42 airmen lost their lives while training at the station, but their deaths brought about improvements in airplane design and tactics. Today only a handful of the station's 126 original buildings remain; the largest of these, Hangar No. 1, has been restored to its original appearance and houses Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum.
Author : William R. Stein and the PBY-Naval Air Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : 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.
