Included in the first phase of the memorial will be a 9-foot statue made Robert Talbot and Stan Watts, as well as an M1A1 anti-aircraft gun. Watts was the sculptor of the 9/11 memorial "To Lift a Nation."
The M1A1 was used by the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions, two of the Marine units that trained at Montford Point during World War II. The gun-- one of fewer than ten M1A1s known to exist-- was located in Tennessee and purchased by the National Montford Point Marine Association for $15,000.
Funding for the memorial was raised by private donations and money from the city of Jacksonville, Onslow County and the state. The architect for the project was O. Liam Wright, the grand-nephew of a Montford Point Marine.
--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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