Naval Air Station Wildwood (Images of Aviation)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738572128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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At least 42 airmen lost their lives while training at the station, but their deaths brought about improvements in airplane design and tactics. 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. Commissioned on April 1, 1943, Naval Air Station Wildwood trained thousands of U.S. 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. 1,
Navy's extensive archives. . Naval Air Station Wildwood contains photographs and images, most previously unpublished, from the museum's and the U.S. Joan Berkey is an architectural historian and author. About the Author Joseph E. Salvatore, M.D., cofounded Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation in 1995 and serves as nonsalaried executive director of the aviation museum
Navy's extensive archives. Joan Berkey is an architectural historian and author. . Joseph E. Naval Air Station Wildwood contains photographs and images, most previously unpublished, from the museum's and the U.S. Salvatore, M.D., cofounded Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation in 1995 and serves as nonsalaried executive di
Long-overdue recognition for a World War II station Robert F. Dorr This book is a labor of love, a long-overdue history of a naval air station that helped to prepare hundreds of Americans who went to war in carrier-based aircraft. They gathered at a New Jersey tourist haven and, many months later, some of them were aboard the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga when she was hit by Japanese suicide aircraft. The contrast between Wildwood and the Western Pacific is made more vivid by this history. This history is also a r. "Very good information about this station and what it was like" according to C. Edmunds Rhoad. Very good information about this station and what it was like training so many pilots in such a short period of time in WWII.