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21453
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Leonard Day, of Morehead City in Carteret County, joined the US Navy on April 9, 1917, three days after Congress declared war on Germany. Harrington recounts his experiences and the ships he served on. On March 4, 1918, Fireman First Class Day and five other North Carolinians were numbered among 306 passengers and crewmen aboard the USS Cyclops which left Barbados bound for Baltimore. Between March 4 and March 13, the ship and everyone on board vanished in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. No trace has ever been found. Day was declared officially to have \"died\" on June 14, 1918.
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21445
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Mays recounts the wartime exploits of Melinda Pritchard Blalock, who was one of a number of women soldiers during the Civil War. She went to war as her husband's brother. Although they were both Unionists, they decided it was easier to join the Confederate forces in Eastern North Carolina, and then cross to the Union lines later. Both served in Company F, 26th Regiment, North Carolina Troops. Mays reveals how they escaped, where they served with the Union forces, and where they lived on their return to North Carolina.
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21561
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Winstead of Elm City recalls his experiences serving with the 30th Division, 119th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company M for four years, nine months, and nine days during World War II.
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Harris, a descendant of a Revolutionary War soldier, Samuel Johnson of Wilkes County, recounts his war experiences and the battle at King's Mountain. He entered the war as a private 1776 and eventually promoted and received an officer's commission as Captain. Harris conducted a memorial service for his ancestor in August 2001 at the Little Stone Mountain Baptist Church in Traphill, NC. Later at the graveyard, a new marble headstone which was supplied by the US Veterans Administration was unveiled.
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21475
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Johnson was flying the last of his twenty-five combat missions, this one to bomb the submarine pens at Bremen, when his B-17 was shot down. He and his crew crash-landed in Holland and were soon taken prisoner by German soldiers. Johnson recounts his time as a prisoner of war during the last month of World War II.
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John Wilson Crowell, who was the great-grandfather of Laura Winslow, was born in Union County in 1819. He was the fourth of eleven children, and the father of seven. At the age of forty-three he joined the 37th Regiment North Carolina Troops. Campbell's article consists of Crowell's genealogy and a series of letters he wrote home from Virginia in 1863-1864. He was killed in the fighting at Fussell's Mill, Virginia, August 18, 1864.
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21340
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McMurray, of Cary, writes about his experiences as a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance pilot during the Korean War. Pilots from this era did not have GPS, inertial guidance, and other navigational systems that are in place today; yet they were dead-on in navigating to their target and taking pictures. The slogan for recon pilots is \"Alone, Unarmed, and Unafraid.\"
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21196
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Sergeant William McBryar was born in Elizabethtown in Bladen County in 1861, and at age 25, enlisted in the 10th U.S. Cavalry. He was a sergeant in Company K. For actions against the Apache Indians on March 7, 1890 at Salt River, Arizona, he was nominated for and received the Medal of Honor. He was later promoted to lieutenant and was in the Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War. After he retired, he was a watchman at Arlington Cemetery, a prison guard, and a school teacher at Newton Grove and other places. McBryar died in 1941 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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21195
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Rufus Geddie Herring of Roseboro in Sampson County is North Carolina's only Navy Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He received the medal for action during the pre-invasion of Iwo Jima. Ripley's article describes the action and also includes Herring's Medal of Honor Citation, which was signed by President Truman.
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21477
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On July 25, 1950, North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War. Sixteen nations, including the US, committed troops to defend South Korea. Almost 800 North Carolinians were killed. One, medic PFC Bryant E. Womack of Rutherford County, was killed March 12, 1952. He was twenty years old and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. In May 1955, work began at Fort Bragg for a hospital to be built in his name. Womack Army Hospital is today a major army medical center and the only such facility honoring an enlisted man.
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21298
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Documents relating to North Carolina's military activities from the reign of Queen Anne down to the 20th century have survived in varying quantities. Stevenson discusses the military activities in the state during the Colonial Period and the records that resulted from it. All conflict is arranged in chronological order--the Tuscarora War, 1711-1715; The Spanish Alarm, 1739-1748; The French and Indian War, 1755-1763; The War of the Regulation, 1768-1771; and the Colonial and State Militias during the Revolutionary War.
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21364
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Colonel David Fanning was a partisan loyalist leader in North Carolina during the American Revolution. Among his successes were the capture of North Carolina's Governor in Hillsborough and the capture of Colonel Philip Alston at the House in the Horseshoe. Hairr explains why Fanning is buried under Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Digby, Nova Scotia.
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Pharmacists Mate Second Class William D. Halyburton, Jr., of Wilmington, is the state's other recipient of the Navy Medal of Honor during World War II. He was assigned to the 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division and was killed in action May 15, 1945 while saving the life of a wounded Marine at the battle of Okinawa's Wana Draw.
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21190
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Davis, author, lecturer, and coordinator of the Family & Regional History Program at Wallace State College in Alabama, shares a compilation of his lecture notes on doing research in military records beyond the Civil War. These include the Colonial Wars, 1607-1775; American Revolution, 1775-1783; Military Service, 1784-1917; and 1918 to the Present.
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During the 20th century over one million North Carolinians have served in the nation's military. All who wear the uniform are heroes. Harrington relates the stories of four who demonstrated the spirit of selfless service and devotion to duty--Robert Lester Blackwell (WW I), James D. Lancaster (WW II), Jerry K. Crump (Korea), and Hiram Strickland (Vietnam).
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