"USS North Carolina in Bayonne, NJ," in the Hugh Morton Collection of Photographs and Films (P081), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (accessed September 12, 2013)ī. North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina," in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (accessed September 11, 2013) North Carolina Battleship Memorial, Wilmington, North Carolina," in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (accessed September 11, 2013) North Carolina Wilmington, North Carolina," in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (accessed September 11, 2013) NORTH CAROLINA / BATTLESHIP MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES / THE HEROIC PARTICIPATION OF THE / MEN AND WOMEN OF NORTH CAROLINA / IN THE PROSECUTION AND VICTORY / OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND / PERPETUATES THE MEMORY OF THE / MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND NORTH / CAROLINIANS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THAT WAR. Images: Visitors on the battleship | Battleship Memorial and setting | Battleship traveling in the Cape Fear River A bronze plaque on the hull of the bow bears the textual commemoration in raised lettering. sailors and soldiers from North Carolina in World War II. The retired battleship serves as commemoration of the heroism of U.S. The ship weights 36,000 tons and is 728 feet in length. North Carolina is a decommissioned World War II battleship, permanently moored as a memorial and historic site in Wilmington on the Cape Fear River. North Carolina Battleship Memorial, Wilmington
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