showing an octagonal standalone lighthouse separated from a red-roofed main building with working Coast Guard station, is clearly Point Judith, roughly 20 miles as the seagull flies from Westerly.

On the evening of May 4, 1945, the officers and crew of the salvage and submarine rescue vessel USS Penguin ASR-12 were celebrating the apparent end of WWII in the Atlantic theater. Buoyed by the ...