The Block Island Times
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This Week in Block Island's history, December 3, 1944: A bad night in the warm Pacific

By Robert M. Downie | Dec 03, 2012

This week in history, December 3, 1944, a Japanese torpedo killed a young Block Island man, Albert Gooley.

Of the 671 Block Island residents at the start of World War II, 96 fought in the war — virtually all the male high school graduates of the late ...

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