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.
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Wilmington, North Carolina's Role in WW II: By the Numbers-- Part 1
From the May 16, 2020, Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News "Wilmington facts, figures from World War II" by Owen Hassel.
Accompanied by pictures of a German POW camp marker, WW-II era hangar at Wilmington International Airport, picture of a farm where German POWs were held and a picture of Liberty Ships being built by the N.C. Shipbuilding Company.
** The POW Sign: Photo of its unveiling at Robert Strange Park at 10th and Anne streets. From October 1944 to April 1946, 550 members of Rommel's Afrika Korps were held here in the main camp. There were also two other German POW camps in Wilmington.
** Legislation to make Wilmington the first "America City of World War II" has languished in Congress for a decade now.
** Wilmington International Airport was the site of an active war airport, Bluethenthal Field for anti-submarine patrols and P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft training.
** Echo Fields dairy farm was one of the places German POWs being held in Wilmington were put to work.
--GreGen
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