While searching for something military, I ran across the “Air Service Newsletter 1930.” Some interesting reads from events, two pilots who kept a Fokker C2 in the air for 151 hours, Jan. 1-7, 1929 in a test of air-to-air refueling; a pilot whose oxygen mask failed, the pilot regaining consciousness at 15,000 feet and regaining control of his aircraft at 13,000 feet; and an obituary for an officer who in World War I served for a time “at the concentration camps in Charlotte, N.C., and Garden City, Long Island, N.Y.”
https://media.defense.gov/2011/Apr/22/2001330130/-1/-1/0/AFD-110422-033.pdf
One of the Fokker pilots was Maj. Carl A. Spatz, later general commanding the 8th Air Force and then the first Air Force chief of staff.
The pilot whose fighter plane went into a tail spin at high altitude was 1st Lieut. D.D. Graves, who, as a colonel commanded the 63rd Fighter Wing and was shot down Feb. 8, 1944, near Porto Santo, Italy. Graves was declared dead on Feb. 9, 1945.
As for the North Carolina concentration camp: “The Germans detained at the camp were a combination of workers from a German ship and immigrants that had been held at Ellis Island since the beginning of the war. In all, 2,500 Germans were held in the internment camp in Hot Springs; many were living right in that luxury hotel.”
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/north-carolina/german-pow-camp-hot-springs-nc/
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