More reasons for the designation:
3. The North Carolina Shipbuilding Company of Wilmington, the state's largest employer at the time, constructed 243 cargo vessels.
4. Wilmington provided the Atlantic Coastline Railroad headquarters, three housing camps for German prisoners of war, a major training base for P-47 fighters, defense industries producing goods and equipment, a British patrol base and a shipping base for Lend-Lease supplies for the Allies.
5. Wilmington sent thousands of sons and daughters to fight the enemy on land, air and sea., P-51 fighters, Tuskegee Airmen, submarine skippers, bomber pilots, Army artillerymen, physicians, nurses and volunteers of all sorts.
Definitely Reason to Become the First World War II City. And, I'm Not Finished. --Cooter
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