Davisville, Rhode Island
21 Iafrate Way
GPS coordinates: 41.606843,-71.450186
Take a photo of your rally flag with the above image.

The home of the Navy Seabees, Camp Endicott houses the Seabees Museum and Memorial Park. With the historic Chapel in the Pines and examples of Quonset Huts designed here at Quonset, Rhode Island; the museum was built by Seabees, run by Seabees for Seabees and their families and the public.

The Seabees were a special organization of engineer-soldiers within the Navy who would support Navy and Marine personnel throughout the WWII fighting theatres. Battalions of highly skilled craftsmen, electricians, plumbers, equipment operators and others were deployed to construct or reconstruct facilities from the pontoon causeways used by the Army infantry to storm Normandy Beach to the airfields on Guadalcanal and Midway.

The Seabees continue to be the front line engineering battalions of the American armed forces, serving in Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. “Can Do – Done” and “We Build, We Fight” are still watchwords of freedom.

Also in the area: Quonset Air Museum is nearby and the home of the Quonset Hut made famous by Seabee installations the world over. If you visit nearby Exeter’s Vampire Grave (Mercy Lena Brown, whose exhumation in 1892 is said to have inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula), stop at the Diner in the Middle of Nowhere on Nooseneck Hill Rd.

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Tour of Honor-New England is sponsored by Jim Hatch of Simsbury, CT.