Fayetteville native shares memories of brother killed in World War II
Gillie Revelle was only 11 or 12 when she got the news that her older brother, Billy, had been killed while fighting in France in World War II.Army Pfc. William Mitchell Shaw II died Sept. 12, 1944. As it was done in those days, the Fayetteville family received the news by Western Union.At the time, Revelle was with friends at a movie playing at the old Haymont Theater, where the Cape Fear Regional Theatre is now. She remembers being summoned in the theater: “Gillie. […]
