23 october 1944 edition of life magazine
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The Hannah Block Historic USO/Community Arts Center exhibits his Army tunic.įunny, but in May 1945 the briefly regenerated Davis newspaper fired this parting shot. “I had to go out with 17- or 18-year-old women.” The Peterson family “treated me like one of their sons.” He married locally and opened a successful clothing business. Lieutenant Justin Raphael, a Philippines veteran, enjoyed our social life. Good for Holly Ridge and America’s history preservation.Īt least one Davis soldier returned to Wilmington postwar. On Sept. 23 at the community center, the state’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources will place a marker recognizing the women pilots who served there. A couple of corner stores along the old “main drag.” Working-class housing. The 17-50 intersection traffic signal, the only one then and now, still operates. Highway signage indicates the restricted Greater Sandy Run Training Area. Since 1954, the Marine Corps uses the Davis airfield and surrounding land as an Outlying Landing Field for helicopter units based at nearby Marine Corps Air Station New River, and for troop training. What was here? Another imagination stretch. But it’s about the namesake, not the camp itself. One must drive slowly to glimpse the metal historical pole marker on 17. And there hundreds of Wilmington belles danced. Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion, in 1944 sparred with his “cross-country company of ring exhibitionists” (as noted by StarNews). Along Highway 50 west, scrawny concrete pillars mark demolished Farnsworth Hall, the gym and social center. The Davis baseball team played the Wilmington Pirates at Legion Stadium in their final game.Ī packing company occupies a large wartime building. Davis would be offered to other federal agencies.Īug. The War Department closed the Air Force center and halted construction. Join us on Facebook: For more on Wilmington area history, like us at Cape Fear Unearthed recounts life in military and politics in new memoir No progress, but military considerations would dictate, he reported. Wilmington mayor Ronald Lane led a delegation to Washington D.C. The Air Force ceased using it to save the taxpayers money, they said.
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The Air Force took the base as a reconditioning and redistribution center for convalescent airmen and rotating personnel. Terms: 25-percent down, balance before items removed, no personal checks.ġ945: Jan. Davis would be sold or salvaged as surplus property once troops are evacuated by year’s end.
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(Read on about its momentary resurrection.)ĭec. 7: the base newspaper’s final edition of 74 issues. The State magazine advised: “It’s up to Wilmington to give serious consideration right now to this business of planning to meet conditions when the war comes to an end.” Meanwhile, Davis personnel and families residing in Wilmington considered relocating. 25, noting it had fed trained troops into battle to hasten victory, officials said Davis would likely remain open after transferring AAA units. More: From Echo Farms to Kingoff's jewelry, the final days of Wilmington's World War II POW camps 'The flag was still flying':: How Wilmington men impacted World War II 19, Onslow County residents drooled hearing he might buy the camp once abandoned. “Has the city’s wartime peak been achieved and passed? Wilmington is profiting much by the war production impetus.”Įnter Henry Ford’s name. Achieving victory meant the rapid waning of boomtown days. The StarNews dolefully summarized Wilmington’s unavoidable fate on July 30. Davis would remain on standby and keep its options open. Then news on July 28: Deactivation coming by Oct. Two weeks later it graduated the 100th and last officer class. More World War II: When the Army descended in droves on WilmingtonĮven more World War II: As GIs enjoyed Wilmington weekends, a nearby hamlet becomes a boom town Plenty of anti-aircraft artillery officers. 8, the Army announced its officer candidate school would end after commissioning 22,000 since 1942. 2, 1944, with indications Davis would close. But couldn’t the Army just stay? The camp’s good times had created jobs, spread dollars and enlivened a region. Speculation, rumors, guessing, what and when? People figured the camp would eventually close. Indecisively and publicly glaring, the decline and inevitable demise of Camp Davis during and after World War II forecast economic disaster for Southeastern North Carolina.