From the Nov. 11, 2012, Wilmington (NC) Star- News by Ben Steelman.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the median age of World War II veterans is now 89. Of the 16 million who served 1941-1945, only around 1.7 million remain.
The small staff pf curators on the battleship are taking care of what the men carried. They have videos of oral stories from about 200 of the 7,000 plus sailors and Marines who served aboard the ship. These are stored in the former chief petty officer's quarters, normally off limits to the public in rows of acid-free bankers' boxes.
--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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