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Less than one percent of Americans who served during World War II are still alive today, according to the U.S. Department of ...
Wage War: The USS North Carolina was America’s first “fast battleship,” designed for both speed and strength. Launched in ...
Battleship North Carolina is ready to get into the N.C. Azalea Festival spirit. The USS North Carolina Battleship Commission, in partnership with the Friends of the Battleship North Carolina ...
Back when Battleship North Carolina was commissioned in 1941, the ship was thought of as "the world's greatest sea weapon," and it turned out to be just that by participating in more than a dozen ...
Tidal flooding skyrocketed at Battleship North Carolina. Natural systems may be the key to survival. Tidal flooding around the Battleship North Carolina has skyrocketed 7,000% since it arrived in ...
Earl “Buddy” Yates and Dennis FitzPatrick grew up nearly 40 years apart, but they are cut from the same Navy cloth and united ...
especially docked alongside the battleship USS North Carolina in Wilmington, not far from town where the Wright brothers made their names. However halfway on her trip to Texas, she will be cut up ...
One of those veterans is here in Wilmington, and he celebrated his 100th birthday on Friday at the USS Battleship North Carolina. “She fought in all the major battles in the Pacific, had a ...
A new study reveals trouble is brewing in America’s most popular alcoholic beverage, and it’s impacting breweries in North Carolina.
A Marine Corps infantryman, 100-year-old Lewis Bourgault enlisted in 1942 and was stationed at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville.