Last year, the good folks at HMdb featured a marker of the week located in Southport, NC, located near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, which flows from Wilmington.
It said that World War II markers on US soil are rare, because with few exceptions, the war did not reach our shores.
But, there is a marker in town for a Filippino mess boy and others who died in the 1942 sinking of a US Merchant Marine tanker off the Cape Fear by a German U-Boat. It is dedicated to the memory of Catalino Timgzon of the SS John D. Gill, torpedoed and sunk by the U-158 March 12, 1942.
The citizens of Southport cared for the survivors.
Definitely don't think I'd like to be on board a torpedoed tanker.
The Greatest Generation. --Cooter
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