LIEUTENANT ALESSANDRO FABBI WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
A RESIDENT AND LOVER OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND WHO COMMANDED THE UNITED STATES NAVAL RADIO STATION UPON THIS SITE FROM ITS ESTABLISHMENT ON AUGUST 28, 1917 UNTIL DECEMBER 12, 1919. AT THE END OF THE WORLD WAR HE WAS AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS. HIS CITATION STATED THAT UNDER HIS DIRECTION THE STATION BECAME THE MOST IMPORTANT AND THE MOST EFFICIENT STATION IN THE WORLD.
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Listing Details
- Public
- WORLD WAR I
- War Memorial Honor Roll Plaques and Panels and Stones
- 1939
- ACADIA NATIONAL PARK-PARK LOOP ROAD
- 04069
- WILLIAM FISCHER, JR.
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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