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NAS Squantum: The First Naval Air Reserve Base

Author: Marc Frattasio

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1304662497

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Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations

Author: Donald Cann

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780738536248

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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.

Wings at the Ready

Author: Richard Shipman

Publisher: US Naval Institute Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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A commemorative volume tracing the NAR's evolution from a borrowed sea plane to the state-of-the-art aircraft flown today.

U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation, Volume I, 1916-1942 Chronology

Author: Wayne H. Heiser, 8th

Publisher: Wayne Heiser

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0977826708

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This book is a chronological account of the establishment of Naval Reserve Aviation and its growth and development before World War II. It is a comprehensive history of Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation - a documentation of the significant events in that history, together with many which would fall under the category of trivia. It is an attempt to illustrate what the Naval Aviation Reserve was all about, and to capture some of the flavor of the earlier days of aviation. The book, Volume I of a series on Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Aviation, may stir the memories of some of those people directly involved in these activities during the period covered. It should also prove interesting to others who might have an interest in the Naval Air Reserve and/or in early aviation.