Record #:

37425

Author(s):

Kelly, Susan Stafford

Abstract:

Among the USS North Carolina’s missions that helped it to earn fifteen battle stars: rescue of navy aviators; destruction of two dozen enemy planes. A mission not par for the war course: the Christmas 1943 delivery of gifts to the crew’s siblings and children, orchestrated by Chaplain E.B. Wuebbens. The gifts’ unwrapping was captured on film for a crew longing for peace, represented in home and family.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 7, December 2015, p142-143

Subject(s):

USS NORTH CAROLINA (Ship); USS North Carolina (Ship); Wuebbens, E.P. ; World War (1939-1945); Battleships; Wuebbens, Chaplain Everett; USS North Carolina Battleship Association ; Wilmington