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A Douglas C-47D Skytrain (built as a C-47B-1-DK), 43-48298, c/n 25559, [96] of the 123d Air Base Group, Godman AFB, Kentucky, [97] with nine officers and 12 enlisted men on board to attend the funeral of a brother pilot who died in a crash Thursday, crashes ~eight miles NE of Kanawha Airport, Charleston, West Virginia, when it clips the top of ...
Pope Air Force Base Historic District is a national historic district located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It encompasses 32 contributing buildings on the grounds of Pope Air Force Base. They were built in 1933-1934 during the first base expansion and include single administrative buildings and dwellings with associated ...
The weekly Roanoke Rapids Herald was founded in 1914 by editor and publisher J.T. Stainback. From 1929 to 1947 the newspaper was owned and edited by Carroll Wilson. The newspaper was purchased by Milton and James Wick—later Wick Communications—in 1947.
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Roanoke Rapids is located in northern Halifax County bordered to the north by Northampton County, with the county line following the Roanoke River.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.0 square miles (25.9 km 2), of which 10.0 square miles (25.8 km 2) are land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.36%, are water.
Roanoke Rapids bus terminal, erected in 1941 at 1114 Roanoke Ave, [3] is shown with a Carolina Trailways bus, in a postcard from the North Carolina State Archives. The former Carolina Trailways Bus Terminal, located at 1114 Roanoke Avenue, was the site of the event that lead to the United States Supreme Court case of Keys v.
Fredrick Pierce Vaughan (October 8, 1904 – October 16, 1986) [1] was an All-Southern [2] college football guard for the North Carolina State Wolfpack of North Carolina State University. One account reads "Vaughan is noted for his consistent playing week after week. He always is depended on and never fails to play his usual steady game.
Roanoke Rapids Air Force Station (ADC ID: M-117 NORAD ID: Z-117) was a United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is 6.1 miles (9.8 km) southwest of Gaston, North Carolina , near the closed Halifax County Airport .