In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were ...

27, 1942, when Ensign Kennedy, of the U.S. Naval Reserve, entered the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville, on the Rhode Island coast, straddling the border of Middletown and ...

Cooper went on to an outstanding career at Rhode Island State ... He joined the Navy, volunteering for flight school. He parlayed his two years of ROTC into a commission as an ensign.