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Book chronicles history of Kings Point USMMA

On a frigid day in January 1942, dozens of young men rowed large wooden boats across western Long Island Sound from the Bronx to Kings Point.

They were cadets moving - in a nautically fitting way - from a temporary home at New York State's maritime school to the former Walter Chrysler estate that was being transformed into the first permanent site of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as America...

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