NORTH CAROLINA’S WORLD WAR II EXPERIENCE

ON-CAMERA INTERVIEWS / VETERANS

WILLIAM FRIDAY                       
Operations Officer, Naval Ammunition Depot (Raphine, VA/Chapel Hill)

BILL FEREBEE                       
Navy Plane Captain and Gunner (Mocksville)

FALLS PRICE                       
Army Hospital Unit and Infantryman  (Cleveland County/Valdese)

ROGER CASEY                       
Machine Gunner, 30th Infantry Division (Dudley/Goldsboro)

BILL HENDERSON                       
Operations Officer, 5th Marine Division (Democrat/Raleigh)

JESSE OXENDINE                       
Rifleman, 82nd Airborne Division (Pembroke/Charlotte)

CHUCK PATY                       
Radioman on USS North Carolina (Charlotte)

JIM HUNTER                       
Rifle Platoon Leader, 1st Marine Division (Charlotte)

BILLY SUTTON                       
Coast Guard Mounted Beach Patrol (Wilmington)

HUBERT POOLE                       
Ammunition Company, Montford Point Marine (Raleigh)

TOM ALLEY                       
Paratrooper, 101st Airborne Division (Charlotte)

ROBERT YOUNGDEER                       
Machine Gunner, 1st Marine Division (Cherokee)

JESSE LEDBETTER                       
Pilot, B-24 Liberator Bomber (Buncombe County/Asheville)

VIRGINIA RUSSELL                       
Nurse, 810th Air Evacuation Medical Squadron  (Onslow County/Hubert)

CHARLES MCADAMS                       
Driver, Red Ball Express (Asheville)

ON-CAMERA INTERVIEWS / HOME FRONT

ELEANOR KENNEDY                        
Student at Women’s College of UNC (Greensboro)

ALDA WOMACK                       
Textile Worker (Six Points/Cliffside)

LIONEL GILGO                       
Child on Portsmouth Island (Beaufort)

DON BOLDEN                       
Child in Burlington (Burlington)

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN                       
College Professor in Raleigh and Durham (Rentiesville, OK/Durham)

MARIE COLTON                       
Student at University of North Carolina (Charlotte/Asheville)

PHILLIP DRESSER                       
Worker at NC Shipbuilding Company (Wilmington)

ORION BLIZZARD                       
Construction Worker at Camp Davis (Deep Run/Kenansville)

MARLENE BLAKE                       
Child of an Evicted Family in Onslow County (Onslow Co./Burgaw)

MARGARET ROGERS                       
Child in Wilmington (Wilmington)

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