BOOKs: Veteran VP-8, VP-MAU, and VP-92 aircrewman Marc J. Frattasio has published a new book entitled NAS Squantum: The First Naval Air Reserve Base. This book covers the complete history of this historic naval air station, which was the second NAS established after NAS Pensacola, Florida and the first one in the Naval Air Reserve training program, in 367 pages of informative text combined with 437 illustrations. Among other things, there's material included on NAS Squantum, Massachusetts, NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts, VJ-4, VN-1D1, VS-31, VP-919, VP-ML-69, and VP-911. The book is available only on the Internet through the printer, Lulu Press. You can order it in hardcover at http://www.lulu.com/content/hardcover-book/nas-squantum-the-first-naval-air-reserve-base/7687206 and in softcover at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/nas-squantum-the-first-naval-air-reserve-base/7634973. Contributed by FRATTASIO, AW1 Marc "Frat" J. vpassociation2@gmail.com [03OCT2009]

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