Bayside Airport was an airfield operational from at least 1938 to 1941. The airfield was located alongside
Hingham Bay
Hingham Bay is the easternmost of the three small bays of outer Boston Harbor, part of Massachusetts Bay and forming the western shoreline of the town of Hull and the northern shoreline of Hingham in the United States state of Massachusetts. It ...
in
Hingham, Massachusetts. Following the
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, j ...
, the land was appropriated into the
Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, which produced destroyer escorts in tandem with
Fore River Shipyard until 1945.
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Defunct airports in Massachusetts
Airports in Plymouth County, Massachusetts