Record #:

21545

Author(s):

Quillin, Martha

Abstract:

McGlohon from Asheboro, a photographer flying in a B-29 attached to the 8th Air Force, along with ten other crewmen, did not receive the order to stay away from Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. They witnessed the Enola Gay going in the opposite direction from them and the sudden bright flash from below. Then they were over the city and McGlohon took his unique photo from directly above the rising mushroom cloud. However, for the next forty years no one believed his story because his plane wasn't supposed to be there. Finally, Ken Samuelson researched and found the proof of McGlohon's historic photo.

Source:

Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Fall 2010, p7-9, il, por

Subject(s):

McGlohon, John, 1923-; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations--Atomic bomb; Hiroshima

Record #:

21546

Author(s):

McLawhorn, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Herman H.

Abstract:

McLawhorn recounts how Ted Sampley, publisher and editor of the Kinston Dispatch, uncovered information that the remains in the Vietnam War Tomb of the Unknown were not unknown but known and that the Pentagon had covered it up. The remains were those of Lt. Michael John Blassie who was shot down and killed on May 11, 1972. He was re-interred twenty-six years later in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Sampley did two Vietnam tours with the Special Forces, and his awards include the Combat Infantryman Badge and two Bronze Star medals with V for Valor.

Source:

Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Fall 2010, p9-10

Subject(s):

Sampley, Theodore Lane, d. 2009; Vietnam War Tomb of the Unknown; Blassie, Lt. Michael John, d. 1972

Record #:

21547

Author(s):

Winstead, Tim

Abstract:

This article follows the experiences of John Wesley Bone of Nash County who served through the Civil War with the 30th Regiment, North Carolina Troops, Company I. Bone later wrote of his wartime life in A Personal Memoir of the Civil War Service of John Wesley Bone: A Confederate Soldier from Nash County which was published in 1904.

Source:

Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Fall 2010, p11-19, bibl, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives

Record #:

21554

Author(s):

Campbell, Colonel Wayne (Ret.)

Abstract:

A \"band of others,\" as opposed to a \"band of brothers,\" means, in this case, men who did not serve as a single group during World War II, Korea, or other wars, but who served individually in various service branches. The commonality among them is that they are all members of the First Presbyterian Church in Raleigh. In this article Campbell recounts the war experiences of William Jackson Hester (Korea) and Charles S. Cooper (World War II).

Source:

Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Fall 2010, p21-23

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; North Carolina--History--Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives