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Walter G. Atkinson is a native of Leaksville, and on June 6, 1944, D-Day, he landed on Utah Beach in Normandy, France. He relates his experiences from that point to the war's end. He was twice wounded and was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery. Atkinson remained in the army after the war. He was in the Korean War and retired in 1961.
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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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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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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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At age eighteen, Tom Dennis left his recent bride in Durham in 1943 and took a bus to join the US Army in World War II. He was assigned to the 34th Infantry Division which spent 517 days in combat in North Africa and Italy. Davis later said he felt he led a charmed life being in a number of life-threatening moments but escaping without a scratch. Harrell's article is a mixture of his additions together with Dennis's narrative. Among the awards Dennis received were the Silver and Bronze Stars, the Combat infantryman Badge, and the Distinguished Service Award.
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Campbell had two great-grandfathers who fought in the Civil War and that his wife Peggy also had a great-grandfather, William Jesse Beach, who fought. Campbell recounts the story of Beach who was born in Martin County, joined the 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry, and was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
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Carr was born in Duplin County and at age thirty-three joined Company C (1st) 12th Regiment North Carolina Troops for six months. When the company disbanded in November 1861, he joined the 43rd Regiment NCT as Lieutenant of Company A. He was wounded and captured at Gettysburg. He was moved to three different prison camps between then and June 1864. In August 1864, he was sent to Morris Island as part of the \"Immortal Six Hundred,\" prisoners who were placed in line of fire on the island from the guns at Fort Sumter. Carr died three months after the war ended. He was the longest held North Carolina prisoner of war during the Civil War--one year, eleven months, and twenty-nine days.
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This a fact sheet providing interesting information about North Carolinians who served in World War I, including numbers of men and women who served, number of nurses who served in the US Army, number of men and women who died of disease in service overseas.
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When England went to war with its American colonies, it was at a distinct disadvantage--3,000 miles of ocean separated them. Communication to and from England could take as much as five months, and there were 1,200 miles of shoreline along the coastal colonies. Cheatham presents six events that should have, for all intents and purposes, prove to King and Parliament that the war was over at the end of 1776. These include the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, the British evacuation of Boston, the Declaration of Independence, and Washington's surprise attack on Trenton, New Jersey in December of that year.
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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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J. Edgar Parker was born in Elizabeth City, but everyone who knew him called him \"Pinch.\" In 1943, he joined the Marine Corps. Poole's article, a combination of his historical additions and Parker's narrative, recounts the story of one young man's journey through the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War--Okinawa. He was one of only 60 original members of his company of 250 Marines to survive.
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Maffitt was a Confederate navy captain and a successful blockade runner. He served in the US Navy up to 1861 when he resigned to join the Confederacy. Winstead's article follows Maffitt's career, his actives in the Cape Fear River, and the contributions he made to two nations.
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There has been at least one militia unit in the greater Sanford area since before the American Revolution. Harrington gives a brief history of the Sanford unit from its beginning up to 1980 and its service during the country's wars.
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Barrie S. Davis of Zebulon was flying his P-51 Mustang fighter as bomber escort on a mission to Romania on June 6, 1944 when he was attacked by a German Me-109. Davis's canopy was shot away and his right wing shredded. Wounded, he was able to make it back to his base in Russia. For years he wondered who his opponent had been. In 2009, the opportunity came, and he flew to Bucharest to meet the other pilot, Ion Dobran, now a retired Romanian air force general.
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McGlohon from Asheboro, a photographer flying in a B-29 attached to the 8th Air Force, along with ten other crewmen, did not receive the order to stay away from Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. They witnessed the Enola Gay going in the opposite direction from them and the sudden bright flash from below. Then they were over the city and McGlohon took his unique photo from directly above the rising mushroom cloud. However, for the next forty years no one believed his story because his plane wasn't supposed to be there. Finally, Ken Samuelson researched and found the proof of McGlohon's historic photo.
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