BRITISH SMASH 34 MILES TOWARD SOMME AS AMERICANS NEAR BELGIAN FRONTIER (8/31/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/31/44 | Drew Middleton, Gene Currivan, John MacCormac. W.H. Lawrence, David Anderson, Sidney Shalett

[BroJoeK]

"Thanks for the post, and especially all the neat pictures."

Thank you, it was very enjoyable work, could have happily spent more hours on it, but had to leave off somewhere... ;-)

[Jacquerie]

All I know of early NC is that it was the first state to reject ratification of the constitution. I don’t bring it up as a negative, it just is. Your screen name implies why.

[Seizethecarp]

Thanks! Glad FDR was allowing US generals to go all out to rescue our military men and citizens, unlike Barry the ditherer.

[colorado tanker]

Two of my ancestors, a father-son duo, were North Carolina Quakers, presumably abolitionists, who volunteered for the Union Army in the Civil War. There were three Union N.C. regiments. After the War they moved to a Quaker settlement in Indiana. I’ve always assumed they weren’t very welcome in N.C. after the War.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve always assumed they weren’t very welcome in N.C. after the War.

That's a good probability.

[RegulatorCountry]

There is a substantial Quaker presence in NC to this day, centered upon Greensboro. My direct male line married a number of Quaker women.