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World War II Rhode Island (Military)

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Rhode Island’s contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay used to be an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the rustic’s such a lot necessary torpedo production and trying out facilities at Newport and the Northeast’s largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, most sensible-secret German POW camps were based totally in Narragansett and Jamestown. Meanwhile, Rhode Island workers from in all places the state–including, for the primary time, many ladies–manufactured military equipment and built warships, such a lot 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.

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