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The South Boston Army Base, previously the Boston Quartermaster Terminal or Army Supply Base and in 1937 named the Boston Army Base, was a 58-acre United States Army annex located in South Boston. It was authorized in April 1918 and opened for operation in October 1918. The terminal was part of the Boston sub-port of the New York Port of ...
English: The South Boston Naval Annex, Massachusetts (USA), vertical aerial photograph, taken in May 1958.A large number of ships are present, among them twenty Reserve Fleet escort aircraft carriers.
In this image, South is on top. The South Boston Naval Annex was a 167-acre (68 ha) United States Navy shipyard annex located in South Boston. It was the annex of the Boston Navy Yard, and was operational from the 1920 to 1974, when it was closed along with the main shipyard. The annex is also home to Dry Dock Number 3, one of the largest dry ...
The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities in the United States Navy. It was established in 1801 as part of the recent establishment of the new U.S. Department of the Navy in 1798. After 175 years of military service, it was decommissioned as a ...
Fort Devens. / 42.50722°N 71.66667°W / 42.50722; -71.66667. Fort Devens is a United States Army Reserve military installation in the towns of Ayer and Shirley, in Middlesex County and Harvard in Worcester County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Due to extensive environmental contamination it was listed as a superfund site in 1989.
Bases. Coast Guard Base Boston [18] Coast Guard Base Cape Cod [19] Depots. United States Coast Guard Buoy Depot, South Weymouth [20] Stations. Coast Guard Station Brant Point [21] Coast Guard Station Cape Cod Canal [21] Coast Guard Station Chatham [21] Coast Guard Station Gloucester [22] Coast Guard Station Menemsha [21] Coast Guard Station ...
02/20. 5,000. 1,520. Asphalt/concrete. Closed to all aviation traffic. Naval Air Station South Weymouth was an operational United States Navy airfield from 1942 to 1997 in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. It was first established as a regular Navy blimp base during World War II. During the postwar era the base became part of the Naval Air Reserve ...
Camp Myles Standish was a U.S. Army camp located in Taunton, Massachusetts, during World War II. It was the main staging area for the Boston Port of Embarkation, [ 1 ] with about a million U.S. and Allied soldiers passing through the camp on their way overseas or returning for demobilization after the war. It was also a prisoner-of-war camp.