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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT59_training-the-tuskegee-airmen_Walterboro-SC.html
(Front text) Graduates of the Tuskegee Army Flying School, who belonged to the first African-American units in the U.S. Army Air Corps, took further combat flight training at Walterboro Army Air Field from May 1944 to October 1945. Many of the fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYQ_walterboro-army-air-field_Walterboro-SC.html
"We were prisoners, but (we weren't made to) feel like prisoners. We were just people waiting to go back home"- Helmut Ulbricht, German POW, Walterboro Army Air Field, 1945.The Press and Standard, 1994.Two Hundred and fifty German prisoners of war…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYN_prisoner-of-war-camp-and-camouflage-school_Walterboro-SC.html
During World War II over 400,000 German and Italian POWs were quartered in camps across the United States. In many cases the prisoners were used to fill vast labor shortages in production and agriculture. Their prisoner camps were small communitie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYA_the-tuskegee-airmen_Walterboro-SC.html
(Top left picture):In April of 1944, Walterboro Army Airfield stopped training fighter groups and switched to advanced individual air combat training. Over 500 black airmen from the training program at Tuskegee trained at the airfield between 1944…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEX3_walterboro-army-airfield_Walterboro-SC.html
" Both white and negro troops will be stationed there, with negro troops to constitute about ten percent of the total personnel." - The Press and Standard, 1942
" A network of army air fields, used for training purposes and available for grimm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEV0_walterboro-army-airfield_Walterboro-SC.html
(Left Column)Walterboro Army Airfield In the late 1920's and 1930's, a rough landing strip was made on the farm of C.C. Anderson just outside Walterboro. Starting in 1941, as part of the World War II effort,The U.S. Government acquired the site of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6F6_walterboro-jail_Walterboro-SC.html
This neo-Gothic building, designed by Jones and Lee, noted architects of Charleston, and constructed by J.& B. Lucas in 1855-56, replaced the jail built in 1822 when Walterboro became the seat of justice of Colleton District. It served as a jail u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5GV_walterborough-academy_Walterboro-SC.html
Incorporated December 17, 1834, Walterborough Academy was the forerunner of the present city school system. Its trustees were Malachi Ford, John G. Godfrey, John D. Edwards, David Campbell, and Archibald Campbell. The Reverend John B. Van Dyke ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X6_150-years-of-faith-at-st-james-church_Walterboro-SC.html
In tribute to all those who, casting away the shackles of servitude and the humiliation of bondage, accepted the sweet yoke of Christ and the light burden of his teachings in the Holy Catholic Church founded by Jesus upon Simon Peter the Apostle, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4X4_catholic-hill_Walterboro-SC.html
Settlers from Ireland of the Roman Catholic faith in this area helped form the ecclesiastical territory of Colleton, Beaufort, and Barnwell Districts under Bishop John England in 1831. The Church of St. James the Greater was dedicated on this site…