Friday, December 23, 2011

Highway Markers for Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol Base No. 16 and the Goldsboro Broken Arrow incident


I am very proud to report that my application for a North Carolina Historical Highway Marker for Coastal Patrol Base No. 16, Manteo, North Carolina has been approved and will be erected at some point in the last spring, early summer of 2012. You can read the page about the marker here.

Also, I found out that a marker will also be erected for the January 1961 Broken Arrow incident in Faro, North Carolina, where a B-52 carrying two Mk. 39 thermonuclear weapons crashed. Here's the marker page for that event. Turns out a book is available just about this incident by Joel Dobson, aptly titled The Goldsboro Broken Arrow which just came out.


The marker will be in this style.

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  1. Frank,
    Congratulations! This is really awesome! That's an interesting story about Faro, NC. I was unaware of the horrifying details of that one. I wonder if we would have anything about it at work (NARA Southeast), I recently got to look through a similar case in Florence, SC where several homes and a church were either destroyed or damaged. Happy New Year and thanks for keeping the blog going strong!

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