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Lt.
Bridges ... in his post war Stearman. He was the 13th member of Civil
Air Patrol in North Carolina.
1 Another of
the first arrivals was eventual Air medal winner William
Paul Bridges, age thirty-three, who had been born on a farm
near Shelby, North Carolina. In 1983 he told Colonel Lester
E. Hopper of the hazards of the early patrols, and about the
base's first fatal ditching at sea.
In the 1983
interview, William Bridges also talked of moving to the
Manteo Naval Air Station near the northern end of Roanoke
Island. Although squeezed into a far corner of the
newly-built base, coastal patrol operations actually began
before Navy operations did. Bridges then described the
little town of Manteo, saying "down here," because by 1983
Manteo had become his home.
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"FROM MAINE TO MEXICO" by Louis E. Keefer As curator and
historian, for the Dare County Regional Airport, I strongly
recommend this book. Find out more about it under
publications on the museum home page.
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