The public is invited to the Hannah Block Historic USO/ Community Arts Center on Dec. 6 at 1:25 pm to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor. The unprovoked attack brought the U.S. into World War II and was a day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared “would live in infamy”.
A presentation of “Wilmington’s Connection to the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Hawaii and the Wilmington Home Front, Dec. 7, 1941”, by Captain Wilbur Jones, U.S. Navy Reserve (Ret.), Chairman, World War II Wilmington Home Front Heritage Coalition.
The event is sponsored by the World War II Wilmington Home Front Heritage Coalition, an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) preservation organization whose mission is to identify, preserve, and interpret the rich World War II legacy of Southeastern North Carolina.