Tag Archives: WWII 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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Tar Heel Traveler Features World War II Gravesites

May 12, 2009 – 1:05 pm

Joe Schwarzer of the N.C. Maritime Museum speaks on WRAL’s Tar Heel Traveler.  The video features a small plot of land on Ocracoke Island that belongs to England.  Four British Royal Navy men who were killed during World War II are buried here.
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