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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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.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Wilmington's Military Cutoff Road-- Part 4
Because of its heavy use, it was apparently paved by the Army soon after the war began. This new route and name first appeared on maps after the war.
The Military Cutoff terminus at Wrightsville Highway, as Oleander Drive was then known, has become a useful bypass around downtown Wilmington.
During the war, it was not used to as way to get to the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company on the Cape Fear River.
--GreGen
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