World War II Rhode Island / Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy and Maureen A. Taylor.
| Author/creator |
McBurney, Christian M. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2017. |
| Description | 192 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Subject(s) |
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| Other author/creator | Wallin, Brian L. |
| Other author/creator | Conley, Patrick T. |
| Other author/creator | Kennedy, John W. |
| Other author/creator | Taylor, Maureen Alice. |
| General note | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016961716 |
| ISBN | 9781467136907 paperback |
| ISBN | 1467136905 paperback |
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