Tag Archives: WWI History

Museum Program Honors Veterans and Highlights Extraordinary Stories

November 3, 2009 – 3:52 pm

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the day before Veterans Day, the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh will present a program in honor of the state’s veterans. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you can’t stay the entire time, drop by for part of the presentation. Admission is free.
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Tar Heels at Normandy on D-day

June 3, 2009 – 3:27 pm

RALEIGH – Hundreds of North Carolinians were among the approximately 160,000 Allied troops at the Omaha and Utah Beach landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The tidal wave of American, British, and Canadian troops marked the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Army in occupied France, and hastened the fall of the Third [...]

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Highway Marker Honors American Flyer for France in WWI

May 22, 2009 – 8:39 am

RALEIGH – When the crowd gathers on Monday, May 25, to dedicate the latest N. C. Highway Historical Maker, it will be in tribute to James McConnell, an American flyer who died in service to France during World War I. The 2 p.m. ceremony will be held on McReynolds Street in Carthage, across from [...]

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