Wilmington's World War II Heroes-- Part 2: C-B-I, U-boats, Convoys,4 Sons, LST

Captain Roddy Kidder flew P-51 fighters in the China-Burma-India Theater.

Sergeant Robert Edwards, flying out of Wilmington's Bluethenthal Field, crewed a B-24 bomber  that sank a German U-boat in 1942.

Col. C.D.  Cunningham and First Sgt. Fuller Sistrunk of the National Guard 252nd Coast Artillery Battalion, protected  oil refineries on Aruba, sinking two U-boats.

Homer Webb, merchant marine, survived the sinking of the SS Esso Houston sinking n route to Montevideo, Uruguay, May 1842.

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MEDITERRANEAN 

Navy doctor James Lounsbury served in the Mediterranean convoys and later in minesweeping near Japan.

B-25 bombardier-navigator 1st Lt. James Lee flew  56 missions from Corsica.  His mother, Bessie Williams, sent four sons into the Army, including Capt.  Charles in France and Tech 5/c Ralph in England.

Jack Hart fought in North Africa and Sicily before transferring to Burma

Martin Willard served on the USS LST-1012 during the invasion of Southern France, August 1944.

--GreGen