From the October 2, 2012, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Back Then."
SEPTEMBER 27, 1962: A delegation from Southeastern North Carolina met with Governor Terry Sanford to ask his endorsement of a proposed Fort Fisher to Southport ferry. (It did come to pass and today is a great, scenic way to get from the Pleasure Island Peninsula across the Cape Fear River to Southport instead of going the fifty or so miles back to Wilmington to cross and then go to Southport.)
SEPTEMBER 11, 1964: The Army Transportation Corps planned to land 1200 troops on Bald Head Island in a full-scale military maneuver. Thirty-one vessels were used in the exercise which was headquartered at Sunny Point Army Ammunition Terminal.
Storming Ashore Like at Fort Fisher. --Cooter
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