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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of photographs, documents and other mementos marking Richard Straub's service as a teletype operator during World War II fill a large box in his apartment — memories of a time he vividly ...