Besides the three aforementioned Moore brothers, two other brothers were serving aboard the USS Helena (in my history blog, I wrote about a person who served on the USS Helena that replaced this one during the Korean War.
The two brothers were Bryant and Frank Potter.
Another Wilmington man, Charles Coatsworth Pinckney was at Schofield Barracks Dec. 7,1941.
A Pearl Harbor-Wilmington, NC, Connection. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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