20 May 1941

Photo(s) dated 20 May 1941
OS2U-2 Kingfisher of Scouting Squadron 2 on the seaplane ramp at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Mar 20 1941. Photo 1 of 2OS2U-2 Kingfisher of Scouting Squadron 2 on the seaplane ramp at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Mar 20 1941. Photo 2 of 2
5 Jun 1944

United States
  • Escort carrier USS Card arrived at Quonset Point, Rhode Island where she began two weeks of carrier qualifications involving various air groups. ww2dbase [Card | Quonset Point, Rhode Island | DS]
5 Jan 1945

United States
  • Escort carrier USS Card arrived at Quonset Point, Rhode Island for two weeks of carrier landing qualifications. Composite Squadron VC-12 was disembarked to Quonset Point Naval Air Station. ww2dbase [Card | Quonset Point, Rhode Island | DS]
21 Jan 1945

United States
  • Escort carrier USS Card departed Quonset Point, Rhode Island bound for the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ww2dbase [Card | Quonset Point, Rhode Island | DS]
21 Mar 1945

United States
  • Escort carrier USS Card arrived at Quonset Point, Rhode Island where she would spend the next 9 weeks conducting carrier landing qualifications in Narragansett Bay involving 4,742 aircraft landings with only one fatal mishap ww2dbase [Card | Quonset Point, Rhode Island | DS]
25 May 1945

United States
15 Dec 1961

United States
  • Aircraft transport USNS Card departed Quonset Point, Rhode Island with a load of H-21 Shawnee helicopters and US Army soldiers bound for Vietnam. ww2dbase [Card | Quonset Point, Rhode Island | DS]

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