Annie Stevenson Hyde, 91, a second lieutenant, and Lieutenant Colonel Clive Goodwin Jr. of Youngsville will be honored at the ceremony for Civil Air Patrol founding members.
The ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. at Total Flight Solutions at the Triangle North Executive Airport.
The ceremony is a follow-up to one on December 10 when CAP was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill, honoring its founding members and their home front role in protecting against U-boat attacks and wartime missions.
Hyde served with the Rocky Mount squadron from 1944-45.
She attended classes and participated in drill while with the squadron.
After CAP, Hyde graduated from East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville.
She was a home economics teacher for most of her 39 years of teaching.
Hyde started teaching in Rocky Mount at Benvenue School.
She spent her last 37 years teaching at William R. Davie in the same room and the last few years teaching career explorations.
Goodwin was with the New York Wing where he was a pilot and searched for downed military aircraft, looked for forest fires and was an aircraft spotter.
He used his experience flying in CAP to help him get into the Army Air Force.
After his military service, he worked for Precision Air and eventually the General Electric Company.
He is active in CAP with the Franklin County Composite Squadron and is still an active pilot.
Some 200,000 men, women and teenagers from all walks of life – including stars of the silver screen and successful businessmen, future Tuskegee Airmen and aspiring pilots – participated in CAP during the war years, largely without recognition or reward.
The organization was founded December 1, 1941, six days before Pearl Harbor.
During the war members of CAP’s coastal patrols, flying their own or borrowed planes flew 24 million miles from March 1942 through August 1943 over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in order to ward off German U-boat attacks against U.S. Shipping, especially domestic oil tankers bound for Europe to help fuel the military machine.
They did so at the request of the U.S. Petroleum Industry War Council, because the U.S. Navy lacked the resources to guard against the submarine attacks and provides escorts for commercial convoys.
The CAP coastal patrols, flying out of 21 bases located along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Maine to the Southern tip of Texas, spotted 173 U-boats and attacked 57.
They also escorted more than 5,600 convoys and reported 17 floating mines, 36 bodies, 91 ships in
In all, 65 CAP members lost their lives in the line of duty by the end of the war.
The Senate passed legislation authorizing the Congressional Gold Medal in May 2013, with the House following suit a year later. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law May 30, 2014.
“I salute CAP’s founding members for their legacy of service and sacrifice in protecting the homeland during World War II,” said Major General Joe Vazquez, CAP’s national commander. “Now, some 73 years later, CAP’s rich history of service continues. Modern-day members, nearly 60,000 strong, still perform vital homeland security missions, search and rescue missions and provide emergency response for natural and manmade disasters.”
