Publication Break of NC Stories of Service

By Matthew Peek, Military Collection Archivist, State Archives of North Carolina

The North Carolina Stories of Service blog will be on an extended publication break, as I will no longer be the primary author and editor for the blog for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. There is currently no timetable on when new posts will resume, but we hope to have it started again toward the end of the year. We have enjoyed since 2019 sharing original stories with you, our readers, regarding the history of North Carolina service members, North Carolina military installations, and the stories behind the archival materials that were created during military service. We hope you will continue to follow us, including on our Facebook page, NC Stories of Service, and enjoy future posts.

WWII 165.B3.F7.2: Photograph of U.S. Navy crew members of the Navy aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), folding the ship’s newsletter the Monument, taken while the ship was serving in the Pacific Theater in April 1945 during World War II. Photograph believed taken by Navy photographer Guy O. Cox of Wilson, N.C., while he was serving aboard the Bunker Hill (April 1945) [From Guy O. Cox Papers, WWII 165, World War II Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.].

In the meantime, you can check out more stories about North Carolina military history by exploring some of the more than 12,500 military photographs from North Carolinians posted in war period collections of albums on the State Archives of North Carolina’s Flickr page. You can explore digitized WWI materials in the online WWI collection from the State Archives of North Carolina in the North Carolina Digital Collections. You can explore digitized WWII materials, including North Carolina military installation camp newsletters, in the online WWII collection of the North Carolina Digital Collections. You can access digitized veterans oral history interviews in the North Carolina Veterans Oral History Collection, with selected interviews online in the North Carolina Digital Collections.

And, remember that all of the NC Stories of Service past blog posts — numbering over 550 since February 2019 — are archived and searchable by title. Go back and read older posts that you may have missed, and explore the rich military history of North Carolina.