[AT] funny..

[Al Jones]

YES! I heard about this for the first time a couple years ago.  The site
is not too far off of NC Hwy. 111, on the way to Junebug Green's salvage
yard!

Al

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:12 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..

Heck John,

Don't feel bad about the unexploded ordinance.  Over in Wayne county,
about 
2/3 of the way from your place towards mine, there is an atomic bomb
burried 
in a field!  It fell off of a B52 near Seymour  Johnson AFB.   They know

about where it is but it is deep in the ground.  The government has a
chain 
link fence around the area where they think it is.  The only Internet 
reference I could find quickly is copied below.  CBS 60 Minutes did a
story 
about it some time back.

"24 January 1961
A B-52 bomber suffered structural failure and disintegrated in mid-air
12 
miles north of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC,
releasing 
two hydrogen bombs. Five crewmen parachuted to safety, while three
others 
died when the aircraft exploded in mid-air. The bombs jettisoned as the 
plane descended, one parachuting to earth intact, the other plunging
deep 
into waterlogged farmland. To this day, parts of the nuclear bomb remain

embedded deep in the muck. The area is off-limits, and is tested
regularly 
for radiation releases. More information can be found at the Broken
Arrow: 
Goldsboro, NC site at www.ibiblio.org/bomb"

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..


> Yep, Camp Butner alright. Don't know when they abandoned it after the
war 
> but it wasn't long after to the best of my understanding. All the
original 
> roads in that town still carry their military names. There are still 
> several bunkers in the woods. And lots of unexploded ordinance 
> remaining----the army is still fighting that problem. To this day most
of 
> the families who were displaced still get hot under the collar when 
> talking about it. It's not so much of having to give up your farm to
help 
> the good of the country but it is how they were treated. My
grandfather 
> was more sawmiller than farmer. If he wasn't in the field then he was
in 
> the woods logging. Upon receiving his eviction notice one of the 
> stipulations was that he was not to cut down another tree effective 
> immedialtely. The house they were living in was 4 years old---it
became an 
> officers club. My dad, who was 12 yrs old, pulled every bit of wiring
out 
> of the house. Every screen was pulled off the windows. Anything they
could 
> take with them they did. Trying to move a farming operation and
working on 
> 2 farms a considerable distance apart took its toll healthwise on my 
> grandfather. He died the same year they moved here. Afterwards dad
quit 
> school to help his mother farm. Fortunatley they had several tennants.

> Then again this cost them when the allotment for tobacco progarm began

> since most of the tennants were not high yield producers. Supposedly
the 
> feds were going to allow them the chance to buy back their land but
never 
> did. The state got first crack at it. They bought it and then
proceeded to 
> cut the timber. Talk about adding insult to injury!!!  The area my
dad's 
> family was from was known as Veazey Ridge. The newspaper headline in
'42 
> read "For the first time in 200 years there are no Veazey's on Veazey 
> ridge". Well, we've been here for the past 60 years although the farm
is 
> down from 600 to just 60 acres. To the best of my knowledge most of
the 
> Veazeys are out of farming. Not exactly genealogy, but its my way of 
> tracking part of my family.
>
> John
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>
>
>> I'd bet John is talking about Camp Butner.  That's near his stomping 
>> grounds.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:44 PM
>> Subject: RE: [AT] funny..
>>
>>
>>> John, What base was that?
>>>
>>> Down here at the coast, some of my wife's family was displaced when
they
>>> built Camp Davis at Holly Ridge.  TRACTOR CONTENT: A history
instructor
>>> at Cape Fear Community College has just written a good book about
the
>>> history of the base.  His father was Wilbur Tyndall, who owned the
JD
>>> museum in Pink Hill.  Small world.
>>>
>>> My Granddaddy and great-Granddaddy got jobs as carpenters
constructing
>>> the base.  Not much is left today, the base was closed after the
war.
>>> Camp Lejune owns most of the land now but the air strip is still
back
>>> there in the woods, I am told, and you can still spy a brick chimney
>>> here and there from the base.
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Hall
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:14 PM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] funny..
>>>
>>> Come to think of it I believe I have an uncle buried on what used to
be
>>> his
>>> family's farm. His wife however was buried in a church cemetery.
>>>
>>> WWII dislodged all of my grandmothers family. Uncle Sam needed the
land
>>> for
>>> a military base/POW camp. Anyhow there were several old cemetery's
>>> there.
>>> They didn't move them but didn't do a whole lot to upkeep them
either.
>>>
>>> Some of which are now on property owned by the state.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>
>
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