The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Vollis Simpson, 94, Dies: Served in the Pacific Theater
From the June 2, 2013, Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus "Vollis Simpson, renowned whirligig artist, dies at 94" by AP.
Vollis Simpson, of Lucama, North Carolina, died May 31, 2013. I wrote about him the last two days in my Cooter's History Thing Blog, but will tell some of his story here as he was also a World War II veteran.
He served in the Pacific Theater and, as a staff sergeant in the Army Air Corps, built a motorcycle while stationed on Saipan from a bicycle and a stolen motor. Even though he didn't have an engineering degree, he served as a combat engineer and built his very first whirligig while overseas as well, but it was stolen.
He also powered a washing machine with a whirligig.
--GreGen
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