ACTIVITIES

ANA Patriot Squadron members meet at 11:00 AM on the last Saturday of every month in the Shea Naval Aviation Museum, which is a small white building located directly behind the soccer fields at the Sports Complex on Union Point (formerly SouthField) on old NAS South Weymouth in Weymouth, MA.  After the meeting, participating members typically gather to have lunch together at a local restaurant.

Members operate and maintain the Shea Naval Aviation museum, which is open from 9 AM to noon on the second Saturday of the month and from 9 AM to 11 AM on the last Saturday of the month.



Other regular membership activities include luncheons, BBQs, outings to local military air shows, lectures and presentations on naval and aviation subject matter, and routine maintenance activities (grass mowing, leaf-raking, painting, etc.) for the Shea Memorial Grove. The group also holds an annual holiday party in December. Membership provides opportunities to meet and socialize with veterans of WW2, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, Desert Storm, and the War on Terror as well as with local military historians and authors.

shea memorial grove

The Shea Memorial Grove was created by CAPT Robert A. Duetsch and the NAS South Weymouth Public Works Department's SeaBees just before the base was decommissioned in 1997. 

It is dedicated to the memory of the 32 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients from Norfolk and Plymouth county in Massachusetts. 

The Shea Memorial Grove is named for CDR John J. "Jack" Shea, USNR, the dynamic and popular executive officer at NRAB Squantum throughout the 1930s who was killed in action when the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp was sunk off the Solomon Islands on September 15, 1942.

The Shea Memorial Grove features a tree for each Medal of Honor recipient, park benches, and an actual Douglas A-4B Skyhawk attack aircraft that was based at NAS South Weymouth and flown by the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve during the 1960s.

the shea memorial grove

was created by CAPT Robert A. Duetsch and the NAS South Weymouth Public Works Department's SeaBees just before the base was decommissioned in 1997. 

the shea memorial grove...

is dedicated to the memory of the 32 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients from Norfolk and Plymouth county in Massachusetts.

the shea memorial grove...

is named for CDR John J. "Jack" Shea, USNR, the dynamic and popular executive officer at NRAB Squantum throughout the 1930s who was killed in action when the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp was sunk off the Solomon Islands on September 15, 1942.

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