Record #:

16152

Author(s):

Williford, Jo Ann

Abstract:

During World War II, the state was home to more servicemen than any other state because due in part to the large bases within North Carolina. Taxes helped with expenses but citizens were encouraged to buy War Bonds to finance the effort. Bond sellers encouraged residents to purchase these bonds with enticements of seeing a captured Japanese Submarine in Wake County or by having a war plane named for their county (Rutherford).

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p2-5, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945

Record #:

16153

Author(s):

Mobley, Joe A.

Abstract:

Torpedo junction referred to the state's Atlantic coastline. Before Germany declared war on the United States, Germany's U-boats were successfully sinking commercial vessels for a six month period before the country could retaliate. From December 1941 to April 1942, U-boats operated with tragic precision, torpedoed an estimated 87 ships off the state's coast.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p6-9, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarines

Record #:

16154

Author(s):

Billinger, Robert D.

Abstract:

Out of approximately 370,000 German POWs on U.S. soil, the state held 10,000 in eighteen camps. These camps were simply tents surrounded by barbed-wire fencing and watchtowers and were located in Pender, Onslow, Richmond, Scotland, Union, and New Hanover Counties.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p10-12, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945

Record #:

16155

Author(s):

Albright, Alex

Abstract:

Military branches still racially segregated troops during World War II but the Navy decided to break with traditional roles for black seamen when it formed the B-1 Band. The state's best black musicians comprised this musical troop which would be the first time black seamen served in any other naval position outside of the galleys.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p13-16, il

Subject(s):

African American musicians; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--African Americans; United States. Navy--B-1 Band

Record #:

16157

Author(s):

Belton, Tom

Abstract:

Women were banned from the military until President Roosevelt approved the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps bill on May 15, 1942. Westray Battle Boyce, an enlistee from Rocky Mount, became the corps First Office Candidate Class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. She served her country in Africa and tirelessly promoted the role of women in the armed forces.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p17-21, il

Subject(s):

Women in war