Clarence Dickinson's parents lived at Wrightsville Beach and he was a 1934 graduate of the USNA, he wrote the book "The Flying Guns: Cockpit Record of a Naval Pilot from Pearl Harbor Through Midway."
Ensign Peiffer was a 1940 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate. In 1944-1945, the new destroyer USS Peiffer was named for him. Peiffer Avenue in Wilmington is named for him.
--GreGen
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.
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