From the October 31, 2012, Wilmington (NC) Star-News" by Wilbur D. Jones, Jr.
If there is anything at all you'd ever want to know about Wilmington and World War II, this is the man you want to talk to and perhaps even better, take a tour.
"Dearest Boy, It has been two days and still no one has told me that you are coming back to me. I know you will though, because my heart is tearing in pieces and you wouldn't die because you'd know your going would do this to me."
This was written by Almeda Stewart Edwards to her husband Lt.Cmdr. Heywood L. "Tex" Edwards, commanding the destroyer USS Reuben James, on Nov. 2, 1941.
Seventy-one years ago today and five weeks before Pearl Harbor, southwest of Iceland, a German submarine torpedoed the Reuben James which was escorting a convoy bound for Britain. It was the first U.S. ship lost in the war.
All the ship's officers and 108 crew were lost. Forty-five were rescued.
--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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