On Ocracoke so...
New Guinea skies : a fighter pilot’s view of World War II / Wayne P. Rothgeb.
Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific war / William Manchester.
Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of Brothers tell their story / William “Wild Bill” Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron with Robyn Post ; foreword by Tom Hanks.
Cruise of the Lanikai : incitement to war / Kemp Tolley.
If you haven’t read it, try to find a copy of ‘The Hatterasman’, by Ben Dixon MacNeill. And old but fascinating and very readable book about the Outer Banks, its history and people: