Mark Wilson interviewed about remembering D-Day

Mark Wilson, professor of history, was interviewed during a morning segment of the Queen City News, reflecting of the 80th anniversary of D-Day: June 6, 1944.

“There were 32 Mecklenburg county young men that served, most of them were in the airborne division who dropped paratroopers into France just after midnight on D-Day,” said Wilson.

“I’d also like to call attention to some of the folks back on the home front who supported those men. The men required hundreds and hundreds of tanks, ships and aircraft to win the battle and there were millions of Americans fighting on the home front in factories to produce that stuff,” said Wilson. “For example, here in Charlotte, there were thousands of women who worked in a Navy shell loading plant to pack the explosives into the Navy shells that would be fired from the ships to the shores on D-Day.”

Watch the entire interview and Mark Wilson’s reflection on Queen City News.