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    71°24′54″W / 41.595°N 71.415°W / 41.595; -71.415 Quonset Point (/ˈkwɒnsɪt/ ), also known simply as Quonset, is a small peninsula in Narragansett Bay in the...
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    first deployment at Quonset Point at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville, Rhode Island. The first Quonset huts were manufactured...
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    Quonset Point Air National Guard Station is the home base of the Rhode Island Air National Guard 143rd Airlift Wing. Naval Air Station (NAS) Quonset Point...
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  • Look up Quonset or quonset in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quonset may refer to: Quonset Point, a peninsula in North Kingstown, Rhode Island Naval...
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    Within the town is Quonset Point, location of the former Naval Air Station Quonset Point, known for the invention of the Quonset hut, as well as the...
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    Quonset State Airport (IATA: NCO, ICAO: KOQU, FAA LID: OQU) is a joint civil-military public airport located on Quonset Point, in northeastern North Kingstown...
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    the ship returned to Quonset Point, and spent the remainder of 1968 in port. Wasp began 1969 in her home port of Quonset Point. Following a yard period...
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    facility, part of Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center at Quonset Point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. A surviving portion of the camp, now...
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    (VF-32) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Leyte based at Naval Air Station Quonset Point. At the outset of the Korean War, Leyte was ordered to the Korean Peninsula...
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  • Les Dudek (born August 2, 1952, at Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. In...
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    to her newly assigned home port, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, on 4 September. The carrier operated out of Quonset Point until 29 June 1960, when she made...
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    entire air group and send it into Quonset Point, Rhode Island. She also maintained way on and headed back to Quonset Point while damage control, fire, and...
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  • District of Columbia at General Dynamics' Electric Boat facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. A keel laying ceremony was held at the shipyard on 4...
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    Navy. Quonset Point, where the Seabee Museum is located was a major United States Navy base during World War II, home to the Naval Air Station Quonset Point...
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    of carrier qualifications, air defense tactics, and exercises out of Quonset Point, Rhode Island, Key West, and Pensacola. But for 10 days of maneuvers...
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    converted into an ASW Support Carrier and was thereafter homeported at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Since that time, she operated as the flagship of Carrier...
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    Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters. He was born January 24, 1952, in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and is married to Colleen Nevius. They have two sons...
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  • later became a street railway Naval Air Station Quonset Point Davisville (in North Kingstown) Quonset Point (in North Kingstown) remained independent (U...
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    Conversion completed on 4 January 1954, Leyte departed Boston for Quonset Point, Rhode Island, as flagship of Carrier Division 18 (CarDiv 18). She remained...
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  • Groton, Connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design and engineering facility in New London,...
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    The Quonset Air Museum was an aviation museum located at Quonset Point Air National Guard Station in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The museum's collection...
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    completed that summer and, after shakedown, the carrier operated around Quonset Point, Rhode Island, conducting training missions with the ASW air squadrons...
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    towards accepting the ferry mission. Steaming to Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island, Ranger loaded 68 Curtiss P-40Es and put to sea on 22...
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  • House Joseph Pierce Farm Plum Beach Light Poplar Point Light Quonset Air Museum (closed) Quonset Point Air National Guard Station Rathbun House St. Paul's...
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    Bradford, which moved to Camp Peary, and finally moved to Camp Endicott in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. CBs 1-5 were sent directly overseas for urgent projects...
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    Module. The keel laying ceremony took place 7 December 2022 at the Quonset Point Facility of General Dynamics Electric Boat in North Kingston, RI. The...
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    Port of Chicago, Illinois Port of Coos Bay, Oregon Port of Davisville (Quonset Point), Rhode Island Port of Decatur, Alabama Port of Hueneme, California...
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  • biplane in 1929 United States Air Force 143d Airlift Wing airlift unit at Quonset Point, Rhode Island USS Arcade (AM-143) was a United States Navy Admirable-class...
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  • General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division (GD/EB) of Groton, CT, and Quonset Point, RI; and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (HII/NNS)...
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    proposed MBTA station is currently being considered. It was located at Quonset Point on Narragansett Bay, an area now included in the town of North Kingstown...
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