Wrightsville Beach Hosts Third Annual Surfing Festival
Wrightsville Beach hosts a big weekend with 300 teen entrants from Cocoa Beach and New Jersey at the Wrightsville Beach Surfing Festival. Nine heats run as surfers chase the prized big one while spectators soak sun and cheer workouts and spills on the high waves.
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D Day in Normandy Recalled by Kernersville Man on Omaha Beach
The account recalls the dawn on June 6 1944 as the Omaha Beach invasion began with the largest armada ever assembled. Soldiers and sailors faced a gray sky and uncertain fate as they braved the channel toward landing zones.
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Normandy Invasion Memories From North Carolina Soldier
Kernersville native Woodrow Wilson Osborne describes D day through Omaha Beach and Utah, his 117th Infantry unit facing shelling and snipers. He recalls fear yet resolve, the first day and advances toward St Lo, the Bulge and Rhine crossings, with notes on his unit earning two Silver Stars and three See See KERNERSVILLE Page 3-D
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