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NOW AVAILABLE from Marc J. Frattasio, the author of The New Haven Railroad in the McGinnis Era, New Haven Railroad - Dining on the Shore Line Route, and The Minutemen of VP-92: The Story of New England's Naval Air Reserve Patrol Squadron, is a brand-new book about NAS Squantum, Massachusetts.
This large format (387 pages) profusely illustrated (482 pictures) book presents the story of this historic but nearly-forgotten naval air station, the first reserve naval air base in the country, that existed between 1917 and 1953 on the site of the present-day condominium community at Marina Bay in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Read all about:
The 1910
and 1911 Harvard-Boston Aero Meets!
The ill-fated
1912 Boston Air Meet!
The Sturtevant
Aeroplane Company's Flying School and Flight Test Center!
The
Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service!
The Victory
Plant!
NAS Squantum's
Roles in Both World Wars!
The Origins of
the Naval Air Reserve Training Program!
And Much More!
Copies of NAS Squantum: The First Naval Air Reserve Base 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!