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By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
For many people in these early years of the 21st Century, the turbulent period encompassing World War II and its aftermath is an epoch as historically remote as the tales of ancient Greece and Rome. But thanks to a very personal connection to those momentous events through his parents, Duncan Police Capt. Carl Long and his family have developed a passion for history and an understanding of how individuals fit into that history.
Along with his sister, Gail Long Nicholas, the seasoned law officer and history buff recently sat down to peruse some of the numerous photo albums containing his father’s pictures and reminisced about some of the stories they heard throughout their lives until their father’s death in 2006.
Carroll Bolt Long was born on July 29, 1919, in Pelzer, S.C. The family later moved to Greenville where he graduated Greenville High in 1937. He had just been accepted into the FBI Academy when he was drafted into the Army Air Corps in 1942 and began training as a glider pilot.
Across the Atlantic in the Sudetenland part of Czechoslovakia, Edith Klaude Marie Sundermann was born into a family that would soon be engulfed in the turmoil of German expansion under Hitler and the Nazis.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Middle Tyger Times.
Discovering their father’s bombing mission logs from 1944-45, Duncan Police Capt. Carl Long and sister Gail Long Nicholas developed a passion for history thanks in part to the stories their father, the late Carroll Bolt Long, told of his World War II experiences. They also absorbed a great deal from their mother, a German whose family lived in the Sudetenland and who as a child shook hands with Adolph Hitler.
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