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Evelyn Whitlow was born in Leasburg, Caswell County. After high school graduation, she trained as a registered nurse, and in May 1940 entered the US Army as a nurse 2nd Lieutenant at Fort Bragg. She was in the Philippines when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. She and other nurses earned the above title for treating soldiers and civilians as their supplies dwindled. Many nurses were successfully evacuated, but Whitlow's plane crashed and all aboard were captured. She was one of eighty-one female prisoners of war held in Manila. These women were the first female POWs in American military history. They were liberated in February 1945. Whitlow died June 3, 1994.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 14 Issue 1, Spr 2008, p6, il, por
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Colonel Cathey was born in Waynesville. This article describes his experiences in Iraq during the 2nd Gulf War. He received the Bronze Star Medal for bravery, and Taylor includes the narrative which accompanies the award.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 14 Issue 2, Fall 2008, p13-14, por
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21495
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William F. Martin and Gilbert Elliott received a contract to build the Ironclad Tarboro on the Tar River in 1862. At the same time they were constructing another ironclad, the famous Albemarle, on the Roanoke River. Little information about the Tarboro has come down through history. It was burned during General Potter's Union Cavalry raid on July 20, 1863. Harris relates what is known and why Tarboro was chosen as the construction site.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 14 Issue 2, Fall 2008, p15-17, il, map
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21513
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The Battle of the Little Big Horn fought between George Custer's 7th Cavalry and an alliance of Native Americans, primarily Sioux and Cheyenne, under the command of Sitting Bull, is perhaps the best-remembered of the American-Native American wars. Four North Carolinians were there--Harvey A. Fox, Jonathan Robers, John Thadus, and Daniel Alexander Kanipe. Thadus was killed at the battle; Robers was with Major Reno's command; Fox was on detached service; and Kanipe has the distinction of carrying the next-to-last message from Custer. A North Carolinian's invention, which could have turned the tide of battle and which Custer did not take with him from the fort, was Richard Gatling's Gatling Gun.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 14 Issue 2, Fall 2008, p4-6, il, por
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21451
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In this continuing series profiling North Carolina veterans of World War II, Samuelson recounts the experiences of L. Bethel Griffith of Leaksville, who served as part of the \"Lost Company\" during the war. He was part of Company A, Tenth Amphibian Tractor Battalion, which landed troops during island invasions, brought in ammunition and supplies, and took back the dead and wounded. Company A became separated from its battalion in 1943 and was in combat with various other units without pay or mail for seven months. He was discharged in 1945.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 1, Spr 2007, p5-6
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In this continuing series profiling North Carolina veterans of World War II, Samuelson recounts the experiences of Conrad \"Gus\" Shinn of Spray. He was a multi-engine pilot in the South Pacific and flew onto islands where fighting was taking place bringing in blood and medical supplies and taking out the wounded--sometimes under fire. He continued flying with the Navy after the war and took part in special secret operations in Antarctica. In 1956, he was the first pilot to land and take off from the South Pole. Mount Shinn, Antarctica's third highest mountain, is named for him.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 1, Spr 2007, p7-8, il, por
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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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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 1, Spr 2007, p9, il, por
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Ferebee was born on a Davie County farm near Mocksville. After college he joined the Army Air Force before World War II began and trained as a bombardier. He flew over 60 missions over Europe and earned a reputation as one of the best bombardiers in the Air Force. He also made two friends who would be important to him later in the war--Paul Tibbets, a talented pilot, and Theodore van Kirk, a skilled navigator. In 1944 he was ordered back to the US by special request of Colonel Tibbets. On August 6, 1945, with Tibbets flying the Enola Gay, bombardier Thomas Ferebee dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in wartime on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 1, Spr 2007, p10, por
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Mackintosh recounts the life of then Lieutenant Henry Rowan Lemly of Forsyth County who graduated from West Point and went on to take part in the war against the Sioux Indians with the Third Cavalry under the command of General Crook. He was in a number of battles, including the capture of Crazy Horse and was serving as captain of the guard at Camp Robinson when Crazy Horse was killed. The article includes some of Lemly's writing about the Sioux Wars. He held a number of positions before he finally retired in 1920. He is buried with his wife in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 2, Fall 2007, p1-4, il, por, bibl
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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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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 2, Fall 2007, p4-5
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Register of Clinton describes his experiences aboard a troop ship bound for the Philippines in a letter written to the Masonic Lodge in Clinton, Hiram Lodge, No. 98.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 2, Fall 2007, p7-9, il
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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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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 2, Fall 2007, p9-10
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This is a reprint of an article that appeared in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 1893. It presents readers with a description of the typical Confederate soldier and gives North Carolinians a picture of what their fighting men looked like.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 13 Issue 2, Fall 2007, p11, por
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Neale explores the necessity of military bands. Do they provide a service or are they just for show? Using the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band and others from the Civil War period as examples, he describes their importance as morale boosters during battles and on the march as well as other duties as couriers, stretcher bearers, guards, wagon train escorts, service in the hospitals, and caring for the wounded. Bands today still carry out their two-fold responsibility of musical and combat support; however, federal funding and finding qualified musicians has been steadily declining since 1993.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 12 Issue 1, Spr 2006, p15-18, il, bibl
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21380
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Samuelson states that there will probably not be another American combat ace after the Vietnam War ended. General Steve Ritchie, of Reidsville, is the last fighter pilot to earn that distinction by shooting down five North Vietnamese MIG 21 aircraft in 1972.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 12 Issue 1, Spr 2006, p20-21, il