The Newport Naval Training Station: A Postcard History Military History and Michael Zimmerman

and Michael Zimmerman

and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid

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while those that fail to do so risk exposing their countries to great danger

The Newport Naval Training Station: A Postcard History Military History and Michael ZimmermanAuthor: Federico Santi In the late 19th century, at the site of an old asylum for the poor on Coasters Harbor Island off the city of Newport, Rhode Island, local residents made a decision that would change American military history forever: they proposed that the 90 acre Island become a U. S. Naval Training Center. Postcards and other artifacts document physical changes over time, activities of enlisted trainees, and images of stationed ships. A