SALISBURY — On his farm in eastern Rowan County, Hugh Martin sometimes likes to “play” in what once was the old wash house and a place for canning. He has filled it with work benches, tools and things ...

That’s all Evelyn Yonka has to say about turning 100 on Memorial Day. But ask about her career as a teletype operator for the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) formerly known as the Women’s Army Auxiliary ...

Elizabeth Teass was a Western Union teletype operator in 1944, posted at a desk in Green’s Drugstore in downtown Bedford, a spot where locals gathered every day for gossip and a treat from the soda ...

There were no commas or periods or even numbers on the teletype machine Louis Gianacopoulos operated day after day during the many months he served in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. But ...

When the bells rang, Airman 2nd Class Daisy Gates knew encrypted messages had arrived. The messages quickly needed to be sent to locations such as Washington, D.C., or overseas. It was during the ...

This week, you’re going to learn the ins and outs of the AN/GRC-46 thanks to this army training film from 1963. What is the AN/GRC-46, you ask? Why it’s a complete mobile-tactical sheltered ...