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Ted Williams

1918–2002 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945May 1942–October 1945 · 92 events · Commissioned at UNC in May 1942, the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School trained 18,700 cadets before it was decommissioned on October 15, 1945. Cadets ate in Lenoir Hall and drilled in a Navy-built armory that opened in 1943. George H. W. Bush trained there as a cadet, Gerald Ford taught there, and Ted Williams played on its baseball team.

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  1. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Johnny Sain report to the Pre-Flight School as aviation cadets Five major league players reported to the Navy Pre-Flight School as cadets of the 25th Battalion: Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky of the Boston Red Sox, Johnny Sain and Louis Gremp of the Boston Braves, and Joe Coleman of the Philadelphia Athletics. Besides the regular cadet course they played for the Cloudbusters baseball team, which by late June had won sixteen of its last eighteen games. People: Ted WilliamsCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 8, 1943, p. 1

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The Cloudbuster Nine

Keene, Anne R. · 2018

Anne R. Keene's history of the Cloudbusters, the baseball team of the Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill during the Second World War, on which Ted Williams played in 1943. The chapters move from a batboy's trunk of keepsakes through the pre-flight training program to the players' lives after the war, and Keene's own family is part of the story. Published by Sports Publishing in New York in 2018, 340 pages with sixteen pages of plates.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Ted, 1918-2002.

UNC Durham Chapel Hill PL NC Cardinal Library of Congress CH Historical Society

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