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A few months ago everybody in New Bern knew everybody else, but today there are so many strangers that the town is assuming a metropolitan air. When in the fall of 1940 Craven County and the City of New Bern jointly purchased the site for the Simmons-Knot airport, few could have foreseen that the summer of 1941 would find 500 marines and 75 airplanes stationed there for training purposes. The influx of people is causing expansion and growing pains.
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33199
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Three hundred civilian observers will relay information of local enemy movement to Fort Bragg during extensive military operations which will take place this fall (1938).
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27891
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During World War II, the construction of an air station at Cherry Point was instrumental in transforming New Bern from a military living space into a nourishing community. New Bern became “Your Liberty Town”, profiled in a 1943 North Carolina guide book as a relaxing home away from home.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Nov 1991,
p14-20, bibl