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Wilmington, World War II: A time of love, weddings, and waiting
Wilbur D. Jones Jr.
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Louise Washburn (left) and friends entertain Camp Davis Army officers at Wrightsville Beach during World War II. She later married fellow Wilmingtonian Air Force Lt. Col. George Boylan.
Interactions with outsiders energized Wilmington’s World War II home front, exploding from isolation to inundation. Numerous women I interviewed for my wartime Wilmington books said the war years were the most exciting of their lives, during ages 16 into their 20s.
“Instead of just meeting people around the corner, we met a wide variety from all over,” Sally Josey remembered. ....

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