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NOW AVAILABLE from Marc J. Frattasio, the author of The New Haven Railroad in the McGinnis Era and New Haven Railroad - Dining on the Shore Line Route, is an expanded second edition of The Minutemen of VP-92: The Story of New England's Naval Air Reserve Patrol Squadron.
This large format (303 pages) profusely illustrated (451 pictures) book presents the nearly forty-year history of VP-92, a Naval Air Reserve patrol squadron that flew SP-2H Neptune and P-3A, P-3B, and P-3C Orion aircraft from NAS South Weymouth, MA and NAS Brunswick, ME between November 1970 and November 2007, when it was decomissioned. The book also presents, in substantial detail, the history of NAS South Weymouth and NAS Brunswick, the VP-92/VPB-92 of WW2, VP-92's predecessor Naval Air Reserve patrol squadrons that flew PBY Catalinas, P4Y Privateers, and various types of P-2 Neptunes from NAS Squantum and NAS South Weymouth, and much more.
Read all about:
NAS South
Weymouth, MA and NAS Brunswick, ME!
The VP-92/VPB-92 of the Second World War!
VP-92's direct predecessors VP-919, VP-ML-69, VP-911, etc.!
The problems with the "old" Naval Air Reserve that caused VP-92 to be
formed!
VP-92 aircraft and operations during the P-2 Neptune Era!
VP-92 aircraft
and operations during the P-3 Orion Era!
And much more!
Copies of The Minutemen of VP-92: The Story of New England's Naval Air Patrol Squadron are presently only available on-line through the printer (Lulu Press). Go to either of the following links to order a hardcover or softcover copy using your credit card or send an e-mail message to Marc Frattasio for details. While you're on the Lulu Press web site do a keyword search on "Squantum" and "South Weymouth" to check out some of the other great Naval Air Reserve related book titles that are presently available through these people!