SEPTEMBER 24, 1942: With 15,000 employees, the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company became the largest industrial employer in the state, eclipsing R.J. Reynolds which had 13,000.
The North Carolina Shipbuilding employees peaked in 1943 at 21,000.
During the war, about 6,000 workers left to join the Armed Forces and, of those, at least 33 died.
--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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