World War II Comes To Fort Fisher-- Part 1 Two-Day Event Sept. 1-2

From the August 16, 2018, Friends of Fort Fisher.

From 1941 to 1944, thousands of soldiers trained at Fort Fisher when it was an auxiliary post of Camp Davis at Holly Ridge, North Carolina.

Activities at Fort Fisher ended in 1944 and at that time there was an 80-seat cafeteria, 350 bed hospital, dental clinic and covered several hundred acres on Federal Point.  There was also a 2,500-foot airstrip and trained 43 different anti-aircraft battalions, coast artillery regiments, engineers, signal corps, ordnance and air warning units.

This coming Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2, there will be all sorts of activities at the fort.

So, Fort Fisher played a vital role in two wars.

--Old B-Runner