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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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Samuelson recounts the exploits of Colonel Robert K. Morgan of Asheville, who was pilot of the Memphis Belle, the first B-17 heavy bomber to complete 25 missions over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. At that time in 1943, squadron crew losses were as high as 80 percent, and those who completed 25 missions were sent home. Morgan later flew B-29s and completed 26 missions over Japan. Today, the Memphis Belle is in the Memphis Museum.
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Harris recounts the life of William Muse, one of many North Carolinians who put their lives on hold to serve their state during the Civil War and then passed into history. Muse was born in Pasquotank County. He served on a number of vessels in the US Navy, but resigned his commission when the Civil War began. His last command was as Captain of the Ironclad North Carolina, and he died before the war ended.
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4.The Chosin Reservoir Campaign by Gray, Colonel (Retired) John E. Recall Vol. 11 Issue 2, Fall 2005
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29144
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This is Part I of Colonel John E. Gray’s combat story of the Chosin Reservoir Campaign published from his memoirs. Gray describes the combat actions during the Korean War of the US Army’s, 7th Infantry Division units that fought on the East side of the Chosin Reservoir in late November 1950. Gray describes the events leading up to beginning of the battle and the events that followed.
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Ltc. Sion H. Harrington, III repeats of a story told to him by Chaplin Larry Smedley of the 82nd Airborne Division of a paratrooper exercise at the Jungle Operations Training Center training in Panama. Smedley was on a jump exercise as an enlisted man years before when an accident happened. A mechanical failure occurred during the jump and many of Smedley’s fellow soldiers jumped into the path of an oncoming aircraft and were killed when they hit the plane’s propellers. Smedley relates how his life was spared during the exercise and how the accident caused him to become a chaplain in the Army.
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This article is written in response to the Fall 2004 Volume X, Issue 2 of Recall and contains some corrections. The author was a blimp pilot and was assigned to ZP-1 at Weeksville, NC. Overman discusses the altitude at which blimps can fly, how an airship climbs and descends, the maximum speed of an airship, the ballonets on an airship, and corrections to a particular historical event.
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In this continuing series profiling veterans of World War II, Samuelson recounts the exploits of Jack Woodlieff, who was born in Leaksville. Woodlieff joined the army in January 1942 and was assigned to a number of positions. When the 47th Quartermaster Unit, Graves Registration was formed, he requested assignment. It is hard, unpleasant work that must be done and involves being the funeral director, embalmer, grave digger, hiker and detective--all in one. In North Africa he prepared the body of Captain Richard Jensen, who was General George S. Patton's aide, and was the only person in the tent when Patton came to pay his respects. Woodlief attended the funeral and received a handshake and a compliment from the General for his work.
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Durham native Carter Billings served in the U.S. Navy Seabees and did two tours of duty in the Pacific during World War II. One was on Eniwetok and the other on Okinawa. In this article he recounts a Japanese air raid on Eniwetok. After the war he worked as an F.B.I. Special Agent from 1954-1974.
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In this continuing series profiling veterans of World War II, Samuelson recounts the exploits of William Lashley, who was born in Leaksville. Lashley served with the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, U.S. Marines and went ashore with the invasion force on Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945. He was in command of the Marine radar stations on shore which were on duty 24 hours a day because the Japanese planes were flying 24 hours a day. After the war he returned home and entered the retail business.
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Warlick was a radio operator on a PBY during a daring rescue of a downed B-17 crew in the stormy Pacific on December 30, 1941. He recounts the actions of the pilots and crew during the rescue. Both the pilot, Frank M. Fisler, and co-pilot, co-pilot, Leonard H. Wagoner, were awarded the Navy Cross, and crew members received other medals. Fisler was killed in action in 1943. Wagoner, a native of Mitchell County, retired in 1961. Warlick earned his Navy Wings of Gold and retired after 27 years with the rank of Commander.
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This is a history of the Cumberland Plough Boys written by the unit's commander Captain James S. Evans, probably in the early part of the 20th century. Harrington has written the introduction.
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Damon Alberty of Greensboro joined the U.S. Army early in 1941 \"to see the big world that surrounded the town.\" He was sent to the Philippines where he was taken prisoner on Bataan after the Japanese invasion and capture of the islands in April 1942. After surviving the Bataan Death March, he was sent to Japan in July 1943 where he did slave labor until the Japanese surrender. Samuelson recounts Alberty's horrific experiences as a prisoner of war from April 1942 till September 1945.
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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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The Battle of Bentonville was fought on March 19-22, 1865. The battle can be divided into three parts, and this article focuses on the opening phase fought March 19 and the Union generals involved. The officers were William Passmore Carlin, James Dale Morgan, and Alphesus S. William. General Joseph E. Johnston was the overall commander of Confederate forces.
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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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