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Military Newspapers in North Carolina


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North Carolina has long been a state with close ties to the military. DigitalNC hosts a growing numbers of papers from North Carolina that were published for and by people in the military:

  • Air-O-Mech, published by servicemen stationed at Seymour Johnson Field, 1943-1944
  • The Black Panther, published at Fort Bragg for the African-American 578th Artillery Batallion, 1940-1943 (external link)
  • Cloudbuster, published at UNC-Chapel Hill to share news about the Navy pre-flight school held on campus, 1942-1945
  • Hot Off the Hoover Rail, published by the community of Lawndale for servicemen from their city, 1942-1945
  • The Caduceus, published by the Base Hospital at Camp Greene (Charlotte, N.C.), 1918-1919
  • The Caromount, published the community at Caromount Mills in Rocky Mount “solely for the benefit of all former Blumenthal employees now in the service of our country,” 1943-1955 (later years published for the mill community itself rather than those in the military)
  • The Home Front News, published by the Tarboro Rotary Club for servicemen from their city, 1943-1945
  • Trench and Camp, published by The Charlotte Observer for Camp Greene, 1917-1918