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World War II Rhode Island

Title: World War II Rhode Island / Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy and Maureen A. Taylor.
Publication: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2017.

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Description

192 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Note

Includes bibliography and index.
"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 faciltites 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."--back cover.

Call Number

JFE 17-7953

ISBN

OCLC

967559664

Title

World War II Rhode Island / Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy and Maureen A. Taylor.

Publisher

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

McBurney, Christian M., author.

Wallin, Brian L., author.

Conley, Patrick T., author.

Kennedy, John W., author.

Taylor, Maureen Alice, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7953