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People remember Gabriel Heater, the renowned radio broadcaster, who died in 1972, for being the voice of WWII. In WWII, Greenville had only one radio station, WGTC (World’s Greatest Tobacco Country) and it was Heater’s voice that brought people in the Greenville community through the war. There were blackout laws, rationing. In June 1942 the local gas ration was four gallons a week. There were WPA gardens, air raid drills, and airplane observation posts. Greenville was “liberty town” for thousands of Marines, sailors and soldiers who were stationed at the numerous bases in eastern North Carolina. There were so many men in town on weekends and they would stay at the Vines House (called Buckingham Palace) run by Mrs. John Horne on the corner of Fifth and Pitt Streets. It would have every room and floor space covered in sleeping bodies. There was also a Marine Corps Air Base stationed at the Greenville airport and their barracks were on the site of J. H. Rose High School on Elm Street. One of these pilots, Frank Lang, flew his dive bomber under the Greene Street Bridge in 1943
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People remember Gabriel Heater, the renowned radio broadcaster, who died in 1972, for being the voice of WWII. In WWII, Greenville had only one radio station, WGTC (World’s Greatest Tobacco Country) and it was Heater’s voice that brought people in the Greenville community through the war. There were blackout laws, rationing. In June 1942 the local gas ration was four gallons a week. There were WPA gardens, air raid drills, and airplane observation posts. Greenville was “liberty town” for thousands of Marines, sailors and soldiers who were stationed at the numerous bases in eastern North Carolina. There were so many men in town on weekends and they would stay at the Vines House (called Buckingham Palace) run by Mrs. John Horne on the corner of Fifth and Pitt Streets. It would have every room and floor space covered in sleeping bodies. There was also a Marine Corps Air Base stationed at the Greenville airport and their barracks were on the site of J. H. Rose High School on Elm Street. One of these pilots, Frank Lang, flew his dive bomber under the Greene Street Bridge in 1943.
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