Military in Rhode Island: Military and War Museums in Rhode Island, Military Facilities in Rhode Island

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Military and war museums in Rhode Island, Military facilities in Rhode Island, Military units and formations in Rhode Island, Rhode Island militiamen in the American Revolution, United States Navy Rhode Island-related ships, USS Greenwich Bay, USS Taylor, 26th Infantry Division, Rhode Island Air National Guard, USS Providence, William West, Newport sex scandal, USS Rhode Island, Newport class tank landing ship, Rhode Island Army National Guard, USS Pawcatuck, USS Chevalier, USS Kent County, USS Newport, Fort Adams, James Mitchell Varnum, Walsh-Kaiser Company, USS Kirwin, HMS Hunter, Naval Auxiliary Air Station Charlestown, Christopher Lippitt, USS Nathanael Greene, USS Block Island, Peleg Arnold, USS Coasters Harbor, Naval Air Station Quonset Point, USS Chafee, USS Acoma, USS Woonsocket, USS Owera, USS Pontiac, 281st Combat Communications Group, Naval Station Newport, Joshua Babcock, USS Bristol County, Naval War College Museum, 143d Airlift Wing, 26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, William Barton, Jabez Bowen, Daniel Lyman, Daniel Mowry, Jr., Joseph Stanton, Jr., Jeremiah Colegrove, Ezekiel Cornell, 143d Airlift Squadron, Quonset Air Museum, Artillery Company of Newport, David Richmond, Camp Dyer, Nathan Miller, Jack Sisson, Rhode Island National Guard. Excerpt: USS Taylor (DD/DDE-468) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor (1811-1889). She was laid down on 28 August 1941 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 7 June 1942, sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Baldridge; and commissioned on 28 August 1942 at the Charlestown Navy Yard near Boston, Mass., Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Katz in command. Taylor was the first destroyer to anchor in Japanese coastal waters at the end of World War II - one that, wrote Admiral William F. Halsey, admirably ...