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As governor, Broughton offered the welcome when the Naval Aviation Pre-Flight School was commissioned at Chapel Hill on May 23, 1942. The school trained 18,700 pre-flight cadets at the university before it was decommissioned on October 15, 1945.
Source: UNC Libraries: Training Programs, A Nursery of Patriotism: the University at War, 1861-1945
Also found in catalogs as J. Melville (Joseph Melville) Broughton.
1888–1949 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Candidates for governor of North Carolina in 1968 posed together at the North Carolina Press Association Institute in Chapel Hill on 19 January 1968: Democrats Robert W. Scott, Reginald Hawkins and J. Melville Broughton Jr., and Republicans John W. Stickley and James C. Gardner. They took part in an hour-long press conference. Photograph by Hugh Morton.
Photographs of the Army-Navy E ceremony in Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, on 22 January 1943, the first such award in North Carolina during World War II. They show officers of the Pre-Flight School and of National Munitions Corporation, the audience and the presentation. Governor J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, Carl T. Durham and Frank Porter Graham are among those pictured.
Commissioning ceremony for the US Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC-Chapel Hill on 23 May 1942, possibly held together with graduation. Governor J. Melville Broughton, who chaired the university trustees, is at right, and Frank Porter Graham also appears. Hugh Morton photograph.
Commissioning of the US Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC at Chapel Hill on 23 May 1942. Lt. Commander Thomas J. Hamilton, who directed the Navy's aviation physical training program, speaks at an outdoor podium, with Governor J. Melville Broughton and Frank Porter Graham behind him. Sheet film negative by Hugh Morton.
Governor J. Melville Broughton addresses the crowd at Kenan Stadium at halftime of a UNC versus South Carolina football game in the 1940s. Behind him stand Truman M. Hobbs, in a coat at left, and University Club president J. Stevenson Peck. Hugh Morton, sheet film negative.
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