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| Keywords: people Lot-9434-7: Of the U.S. vast coastline, no section has been more consistently and severely punished by storm than that of North Carolina. Tropic-born storms, moving up the Atlantic at increasing momentum, have a custom of unleashing their full fury in this area. The men who go down to the sea in ships know this, ad for this reason, they know Pea Island, in the center of the North Carolina storm area. For on Pea Island is one of the Atlantic’s life-saving citadels, the Pea Island Coast Guard Station, which was manned at the time-frame of WWII for more than 70 years by African-Americans. Shown: Always on the alert, the men of Pea Island carry on in the fine tradition of their forebears. By means of this signal light, they blink communication with ships at sea. Office of War Information Photograph, April 22-28, 1942. (2016/01/08). Lot-9434-7: Of the U.S. vast coastline, no section has been more consistently and severely punished by storm than that of North Carolina. Tropic-born storms, moving up the Atlantic at increasing momentum, have a custom of unleashing their full fury in this area. The men who go down to the sea in ships know this, ad for this reason, they know Pea Island, in the center of the North Carolina storm area. For on Pea Island is one of the Atlantic’s life-saving citadels, the Pea Island Coast Guard Station, which was manned at the time-frame of WWII for more than 70 years by African-Americans. Shown: Always on the alert, the men of Pea Island carry on in the fine tradition of their forebears. By means of this signal light, they blink communication with ships at sea. Office of War Information Photograph, April 22-28, 1942. (2016/01/08). | ||||
