From the Oct. 29, 2013, Wilmington (NC) Star-News by Julian March.
The hard part is over. On Monday a bill to designate at least one U.S. city a year, with Wilmington as the first one, passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, it just needs passage in the Senate and a presidential signature.
The two-year effort to proclaim Wilmington as an American World War II City is the brainchild of Wilbur Jones of Wilmington, a military historian.
Wilmington lost 248 men in the war out of thousands who served. The Air Force trained at the city's airport, the Army at Fort Fisher, the Navy at Fort Caswell and Coast Guard Wrightsville Beach.
Definitely a Deserved Honor. --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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