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Navy Pre-Flight School

The U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School trained 18,700 naval aviation cadets at UNC between its commissioning in May 1942 and October 15, 1945. George H. W. Bush trained there and Gerald Ford taught there, and its B-1 Band were the first African Americans to serve in the Navy at general rank.

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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.

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

The Forgotten First

Albright, Alex · 2013 · R.A. Fountain

Alex Albright's history of the B-1 band, the group of Black musicians drawn largely from students and graduates of North Carolina A&T who became the first Black sailors of the modern Navy to serve above the rank of messman, and the first of more than a hundred Black Navy bands in wartime. The band was posted to the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, the book's Orange County link. Published by R.A. Fountain in 2013, 194 pages with illustrations and portraits.

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NC Cardinal UNC Durham Library of Congress

Camp Davis vs. North Carolina Pre-Flight.

1943

Programs like this one came from the athletic associations of the five Navy pre-flight schools. This issue covers Camp Davis against North Carolina Pre-Flight at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill on October 16, 1943. Fifty-two pages carry portraits of commanders, coaching notes, line-ups and statistics, along with sections on the Georgia, Del Monte, Iowa and St. Mary's schools.

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Camp Lejeune vs. No. Carolina Pre-Flight.

1943

Football program for the game between the cadets of Camp Lejeune and those of the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, set for November 13, 1943, at Kenan Stadium. Sixty-three pages with portraits of commanders, notes on the two coaching staffs, line-ups and statistics, plus pages on the Georgia, Del Monte, Iowa and St. Mary's pre-flight schools.

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A tide of dreams : the untold backstory of coaches Paul "Bear" Bryant, Carney Laslie and Frank Moseley

Keefe, Carey Henry · 2022 · KöehlerBooks

Carey Henry Keefe traces the friendship and football careers of Paul Bryant, Carney Laslie and Frank Moseley, coaches whose paths crossed at the Navy Pre-Flight School the service ran in Chapel Hill during the Second World War. The book also concerns Wallace Wade and the history of college sports in the United States. Published in 2022, 382 pages with illustrations, and recipes are included.

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United States Navy Pre-Flight School : research materials

2004

Six items gathered in a portfolio in 2004 as research materials on the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, the wartime program that trained naval aviation cadets on the university campus. Topics include the school, the Navy, and the University of North Carolina during the Second World War. The portfolio measures 39 centimeters.

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Training programs of the University of North Carolina for the U.S. Navy during World War II

Pendergraph, William L. · 1993

William L. Pendergraph compiled a list of the students who passed through the University of North Carolina's training programs for the Navy during the Second World War, including the V-12 college training unit and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Directory in form and unpaged, published in 1993.

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The sky's the limit : the University of North Carolina and the Chapel Hill communities' response to the establishment of the U.S. Naval Pre-Flight School during World War II

Baker, Mary Layne · 1980

Mary Layne Baker's 1980 study of how the university and the town of Chapel Hill received the United States Navy Pre-Flight School that opened there during the Second World War. It treats the relations between community and college alongside the wartime history of the university itself. A typescript of 133 leaves with illustrations and a map, closing with a bibliography.

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This mark of commendation ...

1946 · Department of the Navy

A single printed sheet issued by the Department of the Navy in 1946, carrying a mark of commendation and signed in a manuscript hand by James Forrestal. The commendation concerns the Navy V-12 Program, the Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina in the Second World War. One sheet, 36 by 28 centimeters.

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Judy was dynamite

Troy, Elizabeth (Fiction writer) · 1943 · The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company

A wartime magazine romance by Elizabeth Troy, set in Chapel Hill during the years when the United States Navy Pre-Flight School was operating on the university campus. An editorial note on page 30 says the magazine sent Troy to North Carolina to observe the school before writing. The story runs across seven pages of the 1943 issue with a color illustration.

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Football goes to war : the Army and Navy have chosen a tough sport to help prepare our fighting men for combat

Woodward, Stanley · 1942 · Look Inc

Stanley Woodward's illustrated article from Look magazine of October 20, 1942, on football as training for combat, detached from the issue. It centers on the men training at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, whose team was called the Cloud Busters. Pages 62 to 67, chiefly illustrations and portraits, published by Look in Des Moines.

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[U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, scrapbook]

1945

Four large scrapbook volumes of illustrations made in 1945 by the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, each about 60 to 65 centimeters tall. These photograph albums document military flight training at Chapel Hill during the Second World War. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Greetings from U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School Chapel Hill, N.C.

1944 · Graycraft Card Co., Danville, Va

Composite greeting postcard of 1944 for the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, made by the Graycraft Card Co. from official Army and Marine Corps photographs. The scenes include a paratrooper leaving a plane, a tank, aircraft in flight and a large mounted gun.

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United States Navy Pre-Flight School Band, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1944

Book from 1944 on the Cloudbuster Band of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, billed as the Navy's first all-Black band and made up of Black musicians from across North Carolina. It contains the band's history, photographs and the members' signatures.

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Caldwell Hall, U.S. Navy Pre Flight School, Chapel Hill, N.C.

United States. Navy · 1943 · Curt Teich & Co., Chicago, Ill

Postcard of 1943 showing Caldwell Hall as the academic department of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, where cadets took the classroom side of their training. Printed by Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, its caption gives the school's motto: Rough, Tough and Smart.

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Greetings from U.S. Navy Pre Flight School, Chapel Hill, N.C.

United States. Navy · 1943 · Curt Teich & Co., Chicago, Ill

Curt Teich & Co. greeting postcard of 1943 from the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill. Views inside the letters include Navy Hall, the Administration Building, the Bell Tower and the Navy Hospital. Commander Thomas J. Hamilton and Lieutenant Commander Frank Wickhorst, leaders of the Navy's aviation physical fitness program, appear in a corner.

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Academic Department, circa 1942 (scan 1)

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The Academic Department of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, photographed about 1942. Sheet film negative 0115 from the school's General Scenes series.

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Academic Department, circa 1942 (scan 2)

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The Navy Pre-Flight School's Academic Department at Chapel Hill, about 1942: scan 2 of sheet film 0115, from the school's general scenes series.

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Academic Department, circa 1942 (scan 3)

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Sheet film 0115, scan 3, a negative labeled Academic Department from the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, dated about 1942.

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Academic Department, circa 1942 (scan 4)

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About 1942, the Academic Department of the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, in scan 4 of sheet film 0115 from the general scenes series.

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Academic Department, circa 1942 (scan 5)

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Scan 5 of sheet film 0115, labeled Academic Department, from the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill about 1942. One of the school's wartime general scenes.

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Admiral Glassford, circa 1942 (scan 1)

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Photograph of Admiral Glassford made at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill about 1942. Sheet film negative 0114 in the school's General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Admiral Glassford, circa 1942 (scan 2)

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Admiral Glassford at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, about 1942. Sheet film 0114, scan 2, from the General Scenes series on the wartime school, 1942 to 1945.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 01)

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Admiral Glassford, photographed as commencement speaker at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 10 September 1942. Sheet film negative 0020 from the school's series of general scenes.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 02)

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Admiral Glassford as commencement speaker at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 10 September 1942. Scan 2 of sheet film 0020 in the general scenes series.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 03)

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Sheet film 0020, scan 3, from the Navy Pre-Flight School commencement of 10 September 1942 at Chapel Hill, where Admiral Glassford gave the address.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 04)

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Commencement at the Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, 10 September 1942, with Admiral Glassford as speaker. Scan 4 of sheet film 0020.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 05)

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On 10 September 1942 Admiral Glassford spoke at commencement for the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill; scan 5 of sheet film 0020 records the occasion.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 06)

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Navy Pre-Flight School negative of Admiral Glassford, commencement speaker on 10 September 1942 at Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0020, scan 6, from the school's general scenes.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 07)

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Scan 7 of sheet film 0020: Admiral Glassford, commencement speaker at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 10 September 1942.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 08)

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Photograph of Admiral Glassford, the commencement speaker at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 10 September 1942. Scan 08 of sheet film 0020, from the school's general scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 09)

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Commencement at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 10 September 1942, with Admiral Glassford as the speaker. Scan 09 from sheet film 0020 in the Pre-Flight School's general scenes.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 10)

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Admiral Glassford gave the address at the 10 September 1942 commencement of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill. Scan 10 of sheet film 0020, one of several frames from the ceremony.

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Admiral Glassford: Commencement speaker, 10 September 1942 (scan 11)

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Sheet film 0020, scan 11: the September 1942 commencement of the Navy's Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, held on the 10th, where Admiral Glassford spoke. Part of the school's general scenes, 1942 to 1945.

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Art Jones, 5 November 1942 (scan 1)

1942

Art Jones, photographed at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 5 November 1942. Sheet film negative 0154 in the General Scenes series of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School.

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Art Jones, 5 November 1942 (scan 2)

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Art Jones, photographed on 5 November 1942 at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Scan 2 of sheet film 154 from the school's wartime general scenes.

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Band, circa 1942: Scan 1

1942

The band of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, photographed about 1942. Sheet film negative 0113, one of the school's General Scenes from its wartime years on the UNC campus.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 01)

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Band at a banquet and dance given for African American cadets, 16 October 1942, among the Navy Pre-Flight School's photographs in Chapel Hill. Sheet film negative 0078 from its general scenes.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 02)

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Band playing at a banquet and dance for African American cadets on 16 October 1942, photographed at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Scan 02 of sheet film 0078, from the school's General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 03)

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A banquet and dance held for African American cadets on 16 October 1942, with a band, in Navy Pre-Flight School photographs from Chapel Hill. Scan 03 of sheet film 0078.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 04)

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Navy Pre-Flight School photograph from Chapel Hill of the band at a 16 October 1942 banquet and dance for African American cadets. Fourth scan of sheet film 0078 in the General Scenes series.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 05)

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On 16 October 1942 a band performed at a banquet and dance for African American cadets, recorded in this Navy Pre-Flight School negative from Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0078, scan 05.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 06)

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Sheet film 0078, scan 06: the band at a banquet and dance for African American cadets, 16 October 1942, from the General Scenes photographs of the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 07)

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Seventh scan of a negative of the 16 October 1942 banquet and dance for African American cadets, with its band, at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0078.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 08)

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Banquet and dance for African American cadets with a band, 16 October 1942, one of the Navy Pre-Flight School's General Scenes photographs from Chapel Hill. Scan 08 of sheet film 0078.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 09)

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Chapel Hill, 16 October 1942: a band at a banquet and dance given for African American cadets, photographed for the Navy Pre-Flight School's General Scenes series. Scan 09 of sheet film 0078.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 10)

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Tenth scan of sheet film 0078, a Navy Pre-Flight School photograph of the band at a banquet and dance for African American cadets in Chapel Hill on 16 October 1942.

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Band: Banquet/Dance(For African American Cadets), 16 October 1942 (scan 11)

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From the General Scenes series of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, the band at a 16 October 1942 banquet and dance for African American cadets. Sheet film 0078, scan 11.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 01)

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The band at a smoker in Kenan Stadium, the university's football stadium in Chapel Hill, during the Navy Pre-Flight School years, about 1942. Sheet film negative 0075.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 02)

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A band at a smoker held in Kenan Stadium, photographed about 1942 at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0075, scan 02, from the school's general scenes.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 03)

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Band playing for a smoker at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, about 1942, during the Navy Pre-Flight School's wartime years at UNC. Scan 03 of sheet film 0075.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 04)

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Kenan Stadium, about 1942: the band at a Navy Pre-Flight School smoker on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0075, scan 04.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 05)

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Navy Pre-Flight School photograph of a band at a smoker in Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, taken about 1942. Sheet film 0075, scan 05.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 06)

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Smoker at Kenan Stadium with a band, photographed about 1942 among the general scenes of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Scan 06 of sheet film 0075.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 07)

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Band at a smoker in Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, from the Navy Pre-Flight School photographs of about 1942. Sheet film 0075, scan 07.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 08)

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About 1942, a band performs at a smoker in Kenan Stadium, one of the Navy Pre-Flight School's wartime scenes in Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0075, scan 08.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 09)

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Wartime photograph of a band at a Kenan Stadium smoker, taken about 1942 at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Scan 09 of sheet film 0075.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 10)

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Kenan Stadium smoker with a band, Chapel Hill, about 1942, during the years the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School trained cadets at UNC. Sheet film 0075, scan 10.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 11)

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Band at a smoker held in Kenan Stadium, photographed about 1942 at the Navy Pre-Flight School on the UNC campus. Sheet film 0075, scan 11.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 12)

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Photograph of about 1942 showing a band at a smoker in Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, from the Navy Pre-Flight School's general scenes. Scan 12 of sheet film 0075.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 13)

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Navy Pre-Flight School scene at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, about 1942: a band at a smoker. Sheet film 0075, scan 13.

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Band: Kenan Stadium: Smoker, circa 1942 (scan 14)

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A smoker at Kenan Stadium with a band, photographed about 1942 at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0075, scan 14.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 1)

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Baseball at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 10 June 1942, in the school's first weeks on the campus. Sheet film negative 0080 from its general scenes.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 2)

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Baseball at Chapel Hill on 10 June 1942, one of the general scenes of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC. Scan 2 of sheet film 0080.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 3)

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Navy Pre-Flight School scene titled Baseball, dated 10 June 1942, from Chapel Hill. Scan 3 of sheet film 0080.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 4)

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Sheet film 0080, scan 4: baseball on 10 June 1942 at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, which trained naval aviation cadets at UNC during the Second World War.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 5)

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Photograph of baseball at the wartime Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 10 June 1942. Scan 5 of sheet film 0080 in the school's general scenes series.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 6)

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On 10 June 1942 in Chapel Hill: a baseball scene from the United States Navy Pre-Flight School's general scenes. Scan 6 of sheet film 0080.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 7)

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Scan 7 of sheet film 0080, a baseball photograph dated 10 June 1942 among the general scenes of the Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC in Chapel Hill.

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Baseball, 10 June 1942 (scan 8)

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Baseball photograph from the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 10 June 1942. Scan 8 of sheet film 0080, one of the school's general scenes from 1942 to 1945.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 01)

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Second sheet film negative, number 0026, of basketball with Hashagen and Allen Reese at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, taken 20 September 1942. Negative 0025 shows the same subject.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 02)

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Basketball photograph of Allen Reese Hashagen at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942. Scan 2 of sheet film 0026 from the school's general scenes series.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 03)

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Allen Reese Hashagen at basketball, photographed at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 20 September 1942. Sheet film 0026, scan 3.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 04)

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Navy Pre-Flight School basketball photograph from 20 September 1942 featuring Allen Reese Hashagen. Scan 4 of sheet film 0026, from the Chapel Hill school's general scenes.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 05)

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Sheet film 0026, scan 5: basketball at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, with Allen Reese Hashagen, 20 September 1942.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 06)

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Basketball at the wartime Navy Pre-Flight School on the Chapel Hill campus, 20 September 1942, picturing Allen Reese Hashagen. Scan 6 of sheet film 0026.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 07)

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Photograph of Allen Reese Hashagen taken for basketball at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942. Scan 7 of sheet film 0026.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 08)

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Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942: Allen Reese Hashagen in a basketball photograph from the Navy Pre-Flight School's general scenes series. Sheet film 0026, scan 8.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 09)

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Scan 9 of sheet film 0026, a basketball photograph of Allen Reese Hashagen taken at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill on 20 September 1942.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 10)

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Allen Reese Hashagen, basketball, 20 September 1942: one of the Navy Pre-Flight School's general scenes from its Chapel Hill years. Scan 10 of sheet film 0026.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 11)

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Basketball photograph dated 20 September 1942 showing Allen Reese Hashagen at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Sheet film 0026, scan 11.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 12)

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From the Navy Pre-Flight School's general scenes, 1942 to 1945: Allen Reese Hashagen at basketball in Chapel Hill on 20 September 1942 (sheet film 0026, scan 12).

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 13)

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Sheet film 0026, scan 13, showing Allen Reese Hashagen in a basketball photograph at the Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942.

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Basketball: Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 14)

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Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942: basketball photograph of Allen Reese Hashagen. Scan 14 of sheet film 0026 in the school's general scenes series.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 1)

1942

Basketball at the Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942, naming Hashagen and Allen Reese. Sheet film negative 0025 in the school's general scenes; negative 0026 carries the same subject and date.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 2)

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Basketball photograph from the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, dated 20 September 1942 and naming Allen Reese Hashagen. Scan 2 of sheet film negative 0025, from the school's General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 3)

1942

Allen Reese Hashagen and basketball are the subject of a 20 September 1942 sheet film negative, number 0025 (scan 3), from the General Scenes series on the Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC-Chapel Hill, 1942 to 1945.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 4)

1942

Navy Pre-Flight School photograph, Chapel Hill, 20 September 1942: basketball, with Allen Reese Hashagen named. Scan 4 of sheet film 0025, part of the school's General Scenes series.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 5)

1942

Scan 5 of sheet film negative 0025, a basketball picture naming Allen Reese Hashagen, taken 20 September 1942 at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill. From the General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 6)

1942

Dated 20 September 1942, a basketball photograph naming Allen Reese Hashagen, made at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill during World War II. Scan 6 of sheet film 0025 in the school's General Scenes series.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 7)

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Basketball at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, on 20 September 1942, with Allen Reese Hashagen named in the caption. Scan 7 of sheet film negative 0025 from the General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 8)

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Allen Reese Hashagen, basketball, 20 September 1942: scan 8 of sheet film 0025 in the General Scenes series documenting the Navy Pre-Flight School that trained cadets at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1942 to 1945.

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Basketball:Hashagen, Allen Reese, 20 September 1942 (scan 9)

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World War II photograph of basketball at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, naming Allen Reese Hashagen and dated 20 September 1942. Scan 9 of sheet film negative 0025, General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Bill Bingham, Bill Newfiel Kessing, 30 August 1942 (scan 1)

1942

Group photograph from the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 30 August 1942, naming Bill Bingham along with Newfield and Kessing. Sheet film negative 0051 in the school's general scenes.

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Bill Bingham, Bill Newfiel Kessing, 30 August 1942 (scan 2)

1942

Bill Bingham and Bill Newfiel Kessing, photographed on 30 August 1942 at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill. Scan 2 of sheet film negative 0051 in the school's General Scenes series, 1942 to 1945.

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Bill Bingham, Bill Newfiel Kessing, 30 August 1942 (scan 3)

1942

Sheet film 0051, scan 3: Bill Bingham with Bill Newfiel Kessing at the Navy Pre-Flight School on the UNC campus, 30 August 1942. From the General Scenes series.

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Bill Bingham, Bill Newfiel Kessing, 30 August 1942 (scan 4)

1942

Dated 30 August 1942, a photograph naming Bill Bingham and Bill Newfiel Kessing, from the General Scenes series of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC-Chapel Hill. Scan 4 of sheet film 0051.

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Bill Bingham, Bill Newfiel Kessing, 30 August 1942 (scan 5)

1942

Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, 30 August 1942: Bill Bingham and Bill Newfiel Kessing. Scan 5 of sheet film negative 0051, one of the General Scenes photographs of the wartime school.

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Bill Hartwell, 5 September 1942 (scan 1)

1942

Bill Hartwell at the Navy Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, 5 September 1942. Sheet film negative 0042 from the general scenes of the school's wartime years on the university campus.

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Bill Hartwell, 5 September 1942 (scan 2)

1942

Bill Hartwell on 5 September 1942, one of the Navy Pre-Flight School photographs of general scenes in Chapel Hill. Scan 2 of sheet film 42.

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Cloudbuster

1942

Newspaper of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill during World War II, running from 1942 to 1945 in 156 issues. The school trained naval aviation cadets on the University of North Carolina campus.

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With the cloudbusters at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (unit of Naval Air Primary Command).

1943 · Merin-Baliban

Photographic picture book of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, a unit of the Naval Air Primary Command, published in 1943 by Merin-Baliban of Philadelphia. The title uses the cadets' nickname, the cloudbusters. Thirty-five unnumbered pages of illustrations and portraits show wartime training on the university campus, and the cover credits the work to Francis Lavergne Johnson.

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U.N.C. Chapel Hill Navy Pre-Flight School: Cloud Buster

United States--Armed Forces · 1944

Issues of 'Cloud Buster', newsletter of the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, from March to April and June to July 1944, during the Second World War. Forty images, part of the North Carolina Military Camp Publications collection.

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Presenting the activities of the United States Navy Pre-flight School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1942-1943

United States. Navy. Pre-Flight School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1943 · Published by the Merin-Baliban Studios for the officers and men of the Chapel Hill Pre-flight School

A pictorial souvenir of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill for 1942 and 1943, made by the Merin-Baliban Studios of Philadelphia for the officers and men stationed there. The school put naval aviation cadets through their first training on the university campus during the Second World War. Thirty-five unnumbered pages of photographs and portraits.

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UNC-Chapel Hill WWII Navy Pre-Flight School Booklet

Merin-Baliban Studios · 1943

Original photographic booklet made in 1943 by Merin-Baliban Studios on the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The school trained naval aviation cadets on the campus from February 1942 to October 1945, one of four such schools in the country. Part of the State Archives' Military Collections.

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Cloudbuster (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

1942

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Naval aviation pre-flight school, Chapel Hill, North Carolina : commissioned May 23, 1942, Commander O.O. Kessing, U.S. Navy Commanding Officer.

United States. Navy. Pre-Flight School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1942 · Bureau of Navigation

Commissioned on 23 May 1942 under Commander Oliver Owen Kessing, the naval aviation pre-flight school at Chapel Hill is the subject of this mimeographed typescript from the Bureau of Navigation. Short biographical notes on the commanding officers follow. Seven pages and four unnumbered leaves at 33 cm, documenting the wartime Navy presence on the University of North Carolina campus.

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  1. The Navy opens the first Pre-Flight School offices in Swain Hall Two Navy supply officers, Lt. Comdr. B. H. Micou and Ensign E. E. Mack, arrived in Chapel Hill and set up temporary offices for the coming Pre-Flight School in Swain Hall, hiring a local stenographer before leaving to order supplies. The executive officer, John P. Graff, arrived two days later, and the school's small staff worked out of Swain Hall until early May. People: John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 19, 1942, p. 1
  2. The Pre-Flight School moves its administration into Alexander Hall In the first two weeks of May 1942 the Pre-Flight School moved its offices from Swain Hall into Alexander Hall, the dormitory known as Dormitory K, which had been remodeled as the school's administration building. The disbursing office took over a basement billiard room, and Caldwell Hall was being remodeled to hold the academic staff and about 900 cadets at a time for classes. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1942, p. 5
  3. The Navy B-1 Band lives in the Community Center With the community center unfinished for lack of funds, the town lent it on May 22, 1942 to the Navy as quarters for the B-1 Band, the Black musicians of the Pre-Flight School. The Navy, not the band, finished and equipped the building. The band, trained at Norfolk, arrived on July 31, 1942 and lived there until the town regained it on October 24, 1945. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1942, p. 1 (open house at the Negro Community Center) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 31, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1942, p. 1
  4. Governor Broughton welcomes guests at the commissioning of the Navy Pre-Flight School The dinner program for the commissioning of the Naval Aviation Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill on May 23, 1942 has Governor J. Melville Broughton offering the welcome, and Josephus Daniels giving greetings to the Navy Department representatives and to Commander O. O. Kessing. The school trained 18,700 pre-flight cadets before it was decommissioned on October 15, 1945. People: Josephus Daniels, Oliver Owen Kessing UNC Libraries: Training Programs, A Nursery of Patriotism: the University at War, 1861-1945
  5. The first battalion of 242 Pre-Flight cadets arrives in Chapel Hill The Pre-Flight School's First Battalion, 242 naval aviation cadets, arrived on May 28, 1942, five days after the commissioning, and marched to Manly Hall, their quarters, as the painters were leaving. New battalions then came every two weeks. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1942, p. 5
  6. The Navy begins a temporary office building for the Pre-Flight School beside the campus tennis courts Excavation began for a one-story Colonial-style office building for the Naval Pre-Flight School, 135 by 38 feet with a four-column portico and brick-veneer walls, set back from the Country Club road across from the Forest Theatre. T. W. Poe & Son held the general contract and Archie Davis drew the design; the Weekly listed it with renovated dormitories, a new infirmary, an outdoor pool and a cleared athletic field in the Navy's building program. People: Archie Royal Davis The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 24, 1942, p. 1
  7. A Navy branch post office opens at the Pre-Flight School headquarters A postal inspector from Raleigh and Postmaster W. S. Hogan formally opened a branch post office on the main floor of Alexander Hall, with money order, registry and parcel post service, staffed by four Navy enlisted men. Its cancellation stamp read "U. S. Navy," and on the Monday of opening week the staff found 2,700 cadets' letters waiting to go out. People: William S. Hogan The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 31, 1942, p. 1
  8. The Navy B-1 Band serves at Chapel Hill The B-1 Band, 44 Black musicians sworn in at Raleigh on May 27, 1942 as the first African Americans to serve in the Navy at general rank, played for the Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC from July 1942 to April 1944. Barred from campus housing, they lived in the new Black community center on Roberson Street, now the Hargraves Center. UNC-Chapel Hill: Pioneers of integration (May 25, 2017) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1942, p. 1
  9. The Pre-Flight School bars its cadets from 17 Chapel Hill places in the milk dispute After the aldermen suspended the milk ordinance, the Naval Pre-Flight School ordered its cadets to stay out of 17 places that sold milk from Harward's Durham Road Dairy. When Harward's stopped taking milk from the degraded dairies, the school lifted the ban on three places that had shown they were not using it and said the order on the other 14 would stand a while longer. The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 28, 1942, p. 1
  10. The Pre-Flight School graduates its first battalion with a review in Kenan Stadium The First Battalion finished its twelve weeks on August 22, 1942, and passed in review in Kenan Stadium in new white uniforms before leaving for flight bases such as Squantum and New Orleans. Rear Admiral William Glassford Jr., commandant of the Sixth Naval District, came for the graduation. The school's records showed the battalion's average physical fitness index rising from about 64 to 80 over the course. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1942, p. 5
  11. The Pre-Flight School holds its first indoctrination course for 135 new Navy athletic instructors A one-month course for 135 newly commissioned V-5 physical training instructors, the first held anywhere but the Naval Academy, ran at Chapel Hill and sent its graduates to Navy aviation bases across the country, with 21 kept on the Chapel Hill staff. The class included former Yale coach Raymond Pond and Stanford basketball star Hank Luisetti. Such courses then ran at Chapel Hill about once a month; the December 1942 class included UNC football coach Jim Tatum. People: Jim Tatum Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 26, 1942, p. 1
  12. The Pre-Flight School's Black Navy band gives its first public concert The band of Black North Carolina musicians enlisted for the Naval Pre-Flight School gave its first public concert on a Sunday evening in Kenan Stadium, open to everyone. The Weekly reported a good crowd and praised the playing; the band had come from training at Norfolk on July 31 and was quartered in the Negro Community Center. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1942, p. 5
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  1. Jack Dempsey spends four days at the Pre-Flight School Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, then a Coast Guard lieutenant in charge of physical training at Manhattan Beach, spent four days at the school watching its program, talking with cadets and urging them to fight hard. Other visitors that week included Capt. Leland P. Lovette, head of Navy public relations, and Lt. Comdr. Tom Hamilton, who had planned the Pre-Flight program. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 19, 1942, p. 1
  2. The Navy and the university trustees approve a $932,729 building program for the Pre-Flight School The university announced a contract, approved by the Navy and the trustees, for $932,729 in new buildings and improvements for the Pre-Flight School. The Navy was to pay $768,523 and the university $164,106, the difference between temporary and permanent construction. The list included a $192,000 hospital, an outdoor swimming pool, an athletic field, an office building, a new wing on Woollen Gymnasium, a rifle range and work on Emerson Field and ten dormitories, with Navy rent expected to repay the university's share. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1942, p. 1
  3. The Pre-Flight School's weekly Cloudbuster begins publication The first issue of the Cloudbuster, the weekly paper of the Navy Pre-Flight School, appeared on September 19, 1942, put out by the school's public relations office with Ensign Leonard Eiserer as editor and Lt. (jg) Kidd Brewer as public relations officer. Its nameplate was drawn by a cadet, and from December 1942 it was printed by the Orange Printshop in Chapel Hill. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 19, 1942, p. 4
  4. Former Senator Hiram Bingham tells Pre-Flight cadets that Navy fliers will win the Pacific war Hiram Bingham, former senator from Connecticut and a pilot in the First World War, spoke at the Pre-Flight School's Monday and Tuesday assemblies on a lecture tour of Navy schools made at the request of Secretary Frank Knox. He described the Pacific islands and predicted that Navy fliers working from carriers would win the war against Japan. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1942, p. 1
  5. Lt. (jg) Gerald R. Ford becomes a battalion officer at the Pre-Flight School Gerald R. Ford, later President of the United States, was named battalion officer of the Seventh Battalion when the school's military department gave each battalion its own officer and assistant in October 1942. He later took charge of the even-numbered battalions, was promoted to lieutenant in March 1943, and was detached to the Fourth Naval District at Philadelphia late in May 1943. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 17, 1942, p. 1
  6. The Navy Pre-Flight School's armory is completed near the campus tennis courts A semi-prefabricated armory and rifle range designed by Archie Royal Davis for the Pre-Flight School was finished near the tennis courts, a short walk from Navy Hall. It was a separate building from the NROTC Armory. People: Archie Royal Davis NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 44
  7. The Pre-Flight School begins cockpit instruction in a wingless Navy biplane beside Alexander Hall A new course gave every cadet time in the cockpit of a Vought-Sikorsky O3U-3 biplane, delivered to the Navy in 1933 and set up without wings next to Alexander Hall, so that cadets would know the instruments and controls before reaching flight bases where they now flew within days of arrival. Lt. Richard King ran the course, and a building behind Caldwell Hall was planned to house the plane. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 24, 1942, p. 1
  8. Navy officers' wives organize the Pre-Flight Women's Club Wives of the Pre-Flight School's officers met in Lenoir Hall, chose officers and set up ten committees, among them Navy Relief, a children's kindergarten, supervised play, Gray Ladies, home nursing, a blood bank and recreation, forming the Pre-Flight Women's Club with Mrs. Howard Hamilton as chairman. Within a month the club had started a cooperative kindergarten, supervised play for officers' children at three sororities, Red Cross surgical dressings and a Navy Relief drive. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 24, 1942, p. 4
  9. The Pre-Flight School's Black Navy band holds a formal party at its community center quarters The Pre-Flight School gave its 44-man band, the first all-Black Navy band of the war, a formal banquet and dance at its quarters, the stone building begun as a community center for Chapel Hill's Black residents, with guests brought by Navy bus from the Black colleges in Durham and Greensboro. Commander and Mrs. Kessing sat at the tables with the bandsmen, and Kessing gave the band the next day off. People: Oliver Owen Kessing Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 24, 1942, p. 4
  10. The old Carolina Theatre is renamed The Village When the new Carolina Theatre opened on the south side of the street on October 15, 1942, the older house on the north side (built in 1927 by Bryant's date, 1926 by the Weekly's) took the name The Village. From then on it was closed to the public and showed the Navy Pre-Flight School's free movies for cadets. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 267 · Also: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 17, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1942, p. 1
  11. Chapel Hill builds up a community blood bank with Pre-Flight donors Townspeople and Pre-Flight School personnel began giving blood for a community blood bank in Chapel Hill, kept for local emergencies under Dr. J. B. Bullitt, with technicians from Watts Hospital in Durham and Lt. Comdr. Clark E. Brown of the Pre-Flight medical staff drawing blood weekly at the university infirmary. Commander Kessing and Lt. Comdr. Graff led the Navy donors on November 12. At least 500 donors were needed to start the bank. People: James Bell Bullitt, Oliver Owen Kessing, John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), November 14, 1942, p. 2 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1942, p. 1
  12. James P. Raugh becomes executive officer of the Pre-Flight School When Commander O. O. Kessing left for sea duty and Lt. Comdr. John P. Graff was named commanding officer, Lieut. James P. Raugh, the school's regimental commander, was moved up to executive officer, and Lieut. Lloyd R. Sauer took over the regiment. People: Oliver Owen Kessing, John P. Graff DigitalNC: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), November 28, 1942, p. 1
  13. John P. Graff takes command of the Navy Pre-Flight School When Commander O. O. Kessing was ordered to sea in November 1942, his executive officer John P. Graff was named to succeed him in command; a regimental review in Kenan Stadium honored Kessing on November 26, and the Weekly reported Graff's promotion to commander in the first week of December. Graff, recalled from retirement, had been the first line officer to arrive in the spring of 1942. People: Oliver Owen Kessing, John P. Graff Francis Laverne Johnson, With the Cloudbusters at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill (1943), scan p. 8 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 27, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1942, p. 1
  14. Navy Pre-Flight band holds open house at the community center for Black residents The Navy Pre-Flight School band, made up of Black men enlisted in North Carolina, showed white residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro through its quarters in the Negro Community Center, which the Navy had finished and enlarged in lieu of rent. The Weekly reported that the building would become the social and recreational center for Black residents of both towns after the war. People: Harold D. Meyer, John P. Graff The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1942, p. 1
  15. Kate Smith broadcasts her network radio hour twice from Memorial Hall The Kate Smith Hour, with Ted Collins and guest stars Jane Wyatt and George Murphy, was broadcast coast to coast from the stage of Memorial Hall, first to the Pre-Flight School's cadets and officers in the evening and again at midnight to an audience of students, faculty and townspeople. The Pre-Flight glee club sang, and the film The Navy Comes Through, starring Wyatt and Murphy, had its southern premiere at the Carolina Theatre the same day. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), November 14, 1942, p. 1
  16. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard inspects the Pre-Flight School Ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, toured the Pre-Flight School and watched cadets on the drill fields with his aide, Capt. E. P. Forrestel, Capt. W. S. Popham of the NROTC and the school's officers. The same evening he was scheduled to speak in Memorial Hall for the Carolina Political Union, introduced by Josephus Daniels. People: Josephus Daniels Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), November 28, 1942, p. 2
  17. A regimental review in Kenan Stadium honors Commander Kessing as he leaves for the Pacific With Admiral Halsey asking for him in the southwest Pacific, Commander O. O. Kessing was ordered to sea duty, and the Pre-Flight School held a regimental review in his honor in Kenan Stadium. Lieutenant Commander John P. Graff succeeded him in command. People: R. B. House, John P. Graff Chapel Hill Weekly: "Kessing to Leave Here because He Is Wanted on Battle Front" (November 27, 1942), p. 1
  18. Pre-Flight School personnel pledge $38,811 in war bonds on Pearl Harbor Day On the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor, 63 percent of the school's officers, V-5 instructors, cadets, crew and civilian employees pledged $38,811 in war bonds and stamps, part of a Sixth Naval District drive. The V-5 instructors led with 95 percent taking part, and the 12th Battalion pledged the most, $10,530. People: John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), December 12, 1942, p. 1
  19. Navy Pre-Flight band gives a Christmas party for Black children at the community center The Navy Pre-Flight School band gave a Christmas party, with a tree, gifts and refreshments, for the Black children of Chapel Hill and Carrboro at the Negro Community Center. The Weekly noted that the band opened the center to the public every afternoon, showed free movies on Friday evenings, let boys use the playground and drill field, and had given two concerts at the Orange County Training School. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1942, p. 4
  20. William C. Coker lends fourteen acres on the Raleigh Road for a Pre-Flight victory garden Dr. William C. Coker of the university faculty lent the Navy a fourteen-acre tract on the Raleigh Road near the school for the duration, and Commander Graff approved a victory garden to be worked by cadets on the labor crew. The labor engineering staff under Ensign Warren H. Chivers was to run it with advice from the university's federal farming project of the Soil Conservation Service, and the vegetables were meant for the cadets' mess. People: William Chambers Coker, John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), January 23, 1943, p. 1
  21. Charlie Gehringer and Hal Schumacher take Navy officer training at the Pre-Flight School Detroit Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer and New York Giants pitcher Hal Schumacher were among about 130 coaches and athletes who began a month of Navy indoctrination at Chapel Hill, along with Washington Redskins players Dick Todd and Ed Cifers, Chicago Bears end Ray Bray and former Detroit Lions coach Bill Edwards. They finished on February 6, and twenty of the class stayed on as instructors at Chapel Hill. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), January 16, 1943, p. 1 · Also: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 6, 1943, p. 1
  22. The Pre-Flight School's new Navy hospital opens behind the university's medical building The Navy's new three-story brick hospital, built for about $192,000 at the corner of Raleigh and Pittsboro roads behind the university's medical building, was opened to the public for inspection and set to take its first patients on February 9, 1943. Until then sick cadets had been kept in the crowded university infirmary or sent to Watts Hospital in Durham. Comdr. Deane H. Vance was in charge. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 6, 1943, p. 1
  23. University turns Carr dormitory over to the Navy Pre-Flight School The University turned Carr dormitory over to the Navy Pre-Flight School, which needed more quarters for a larger enrollment, and rushed a renovation to ready it for a detachment of aviation cadets due on February 25. The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1943, p. 1
  24. Governor Broughton and the General Assembly tour the Pre-Flight School Governor J. Melville Broughton, the Council of State and about 140 members of the General Assembly came from Raleigh by bus as an honorary 20th Battalion, watched cadets on the obstacle course and at football, boxing, wrestling, swimming and other sports, saw hand-to-hand combat and mass drills in Woollen Gymnasium and dined with the school. On February 24 the legislature passed a joint resolution thanking Commander Graff and Orange County's representative, John W. Umstead Jr., who arranged the visit. People: J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, James P. Raugh, John W. Umstead Jr., John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 20, 1943, p. 1
  25. A March of Time crew films the Pre-Flight School's training A five-man crew from the March of Time newsreel, led by director Phillipe De Lacey and made up mostly of servicemen learning combat filming, spent a week filming the Pre-Flight program for a picture on the wartime training of American youth. A March of Time short, History of Naval Aviation, with scenes taken at the school, was shown at the Village Theatre in June. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), March 13, 1943, p. 1
  26. Navy Hall opens as the Pre-Flight School's visitors' entrance and cadet lounge Designed by Archie Royal Davis and first drawn as a temporary office and hostess building, Navy Hall opened on March 13, 1943 with offices for the Pre-Flight School and recreation rooms for cadets; the public was invited in on March 21. People: Archie Royal Davis NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 43 · Also: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 17, 1943, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 19, 1943, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1943, p. 1
  27. Pre-Flight cadets put out a forest fire near Horace Williams Airport A forest and brush fire spread over about a square mile and a half near the Chapel Hill airport on the evening of April 5, 1943, threatening university property where equipment was stored, two farmhouses and perhaps the hangars. Commander Graff called out the duty battalion, the 18th, and cadets with shovels, rakes and axes under Lt. (jg) Warren H. Chivers had it under control within two hours. Capt. W. S. Popham, the senior officer present, commended them. People: John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 10, 1943, p. 1
  28. The Pre-Flight School is to open its Synthetic Devices Building A remodeled building behind Caldwell Hall, between Emerson Stadium and the tailor shop, was to open to cadets and personnel on Sunday, April 11, as a classroom and small museum of training devices: scale models of Allied and enemy planes, tanks and warships, gunnery aids, posters and an automatic rater for recognition drill. Lt. Richard King was in charge, and it was open to Navy personnel but not the public. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 10, 1943, p. 1
  29. World champion Cornelius Warmerdam vaults 15 feet 2 inches at Fetzer Field Ensign Cornelius Warmerdam, the world record holder in the pole vault, who was taking his Navy indoctrination at Chapel Hill, cleared 15 feet 2 inches for the Pre-Flight team in a dual meet with Duke on Fetzer Field before about 2,000 people, his 34th vault over 15 feet. Duke won the meet, 65 to 61. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 17, 1943, p. 3
  30. Danish minister Henrik de Kauffmann inspects the Pre-Flight School Henrik de Kauffmann, Denmark's minister to the United States, who spoke on the university campus that week, inspected the Pre-Flight training program and watched the opening round of the regimental wrestling tournament. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 1, 1943, p. 3
  31. 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 Williams Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 8, 1943, p. 1
  32. Marine ace Joe Foss speaks to the Pre-Flight regiment two days after receiving the Medal of Honor Capt. Joseph J. Foss of the Marine Corps, credited with 26 enemy planes over Guadalcanal and the country's leading ace, spoke to the cadets, officers and V-5 instructors two days after President Roosevelt gave him the Medal of Honor. He stressed teamwork and hard training and answered questions about being forced down at sea. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 22, 1943, p. 1
  33. The Pre-Flight School marks its first anniversary with a review in Kenan Stadium The school celebrated the first anniversary of its commissioning with a regimental review in Kenan Stadium. Commander Graff gave the Silver Star to Cadet Anthony E. Kujawinski for gallantry in combat, and Dean Francis F. Bradshaw brought the university's greetings. People: Francis Foster Bradshaw, John P. Graff Francis Laverne Johnson, With the Cloudbusters at the United States Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill (1943), scan p. 34 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 21, 1943, p. 1
  34. The Pre-Flight School's victory garden begins feeding the cadets The Pre-Flight School's victory garden, worked for several months by its labor engineering crews, began producing in late June 1943. More than $200 worth of beets, cucumbers, kale and chard had been sold to Lenoir Dining Hall and served back to the cadets, with tomatoes, potatoes, peanuts and other crops still to come. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 3, 1943, p. 1
  35. Governor Broughton speaks at a Pre-Flight School graduation in Kenan Stadium Broughton and UNC president Frank Porter Graham both spoke at Navy Pre-Flight School graduation exercises in Kenan Stadium on June 2, 1943. People: Frank Porter Graham R.A. Fountain: Chronology (Navy Pre-Flight School)
  36. Chapel Hill Red Cross Grey Ladies are capped for service at the Navy Pre-Flight hospital Twelve women of the Chapel Hill Red Cross Grey Ladies hospital unit and recreation corps received caps and certificates after 24 hours of probationary duty at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight Hospital. Commander John P. Graff thanked them for serving the cadets, and Russell Grumman, the town's Red Cross chairman, presented the certificates. People: John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 3, 1943, p. 4 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 2, 1943, p. 1
  37. Kessing Pool opens behind Woollen Gymnasium for Pre-Flight swimming training An outdoor pool behind Woollen Gymnasium opened in mid-August 1943 for the Navy Pre-Flight School's aquatic training and was named for Oliver Owen Kessing, the school's first commanding officer. Thousands of servicemen trained in it, among them Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. Carolina Story: Bowman Gray and Kessing Pools and Koury Natatorium · Also: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 21, 1943, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1943, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1943, p. 1
  38. The Navy Pre-Flight band gives a summer series of public Sunday concerts The Pre-Flight School band, the Black Navy band led by James B. Parsons, gave public Sunday afternoon concerts on alternate weeks, mostly in the Forest Theatre, with Black guest artists. Billed guests included tenor Isadore Ogelsby of the state college for Black students in Durham, bandleader Fletcher Henderson and his vocal trio, and clarinetist F. Nathaniel Gatlin of Bennett College; the last concert moved to Memorial Hall. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 28, 1943, p. 1
  39. Assistant Navy Secretary Artemus L. Gates addresses Pre-Flight graduates in Kenan Stadium Artemus L. Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, flew to Chapel Hill on his first visit and gave the main address to the graduating 27th Battalion in Kenan Stadium, then reviewed the regiment of cadets. Captain William S. Popham of the university's Naval Training Unit stood with him on the reviewing line. People: John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 21, 1943, p. 1
  40. Tar Heel Boys' State delegates take a week of Pre-Flight training About 145 high school seniors at the fifth annual Tar Heel Boys' State, run by the American Legion with the Institute of Government, were housed at the Pre-Flight School for the week. They spent mornings in sessions on the campus and afternoons in drill, hand-to-hand fighting, boxing, wrestling, swimming and the obstacle course, closing at the Carolina Inn. People: James P. Raugh, John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 28, 1943, p. 3
  41. The Craighead twins take 600 cadets into the woods to start "self-preservation" training Ensigns John and Frank Craighead, twin naturalists just back from writing a survival manual for the Pre-Flight Schools, and Lieut. George D. Kepler took some 600 cadets and visiting newspapermen about five miles out of Chapel Hill for the first lesson in the new self-preservation course. They showed how to draw water from grapevines, twist bark into fishing line and find food in the woods. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 18, 1943, p. 1
  42. Pre-Flight and Duke football teams fly from Chapel Hill to a game by glider The Pre-Flight "B" football team and Duke's junior varsity flew from the Horace Williams Airport to Camp Mackall in three C-47 transports, each towing a CG-4A glider, and were said to be the first football teams ever carried to a game by glider. The 75-mile trip took 45 minutes; Duke won the game 7 to 6. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 16, 1943, p. 3
  43. The University votes degree credit for courses taken in the Navy Pre-Flight School After joint committees studied the Navy Pre-Flight School's instruction, the University faculty approved giving degree credit, about a quarter's work, for courses cadets completed there, mostly in mathematics and physics. Lieutenant Commander Howard Hamilton of the Navy school and Guy Phillips of the University War College led the work. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 5, 1943, p. 1
  44. Commander Graff institutes the Commanding Officer's Trophy at the Pre-Flight School On the first anniversary of taking command, John P. Graff created the Commanding Officer's Trophy, a plaque in Navy Hall carrying the name of the outstanding cadet of each battalion, chosen with the heads of the military, academic and athletic departments and made retroactive to the First Battalion. He asked that the University keep the plaque in its archives when the school closed. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill): November 27, 1943, p. 1
  45. British Ambassador Lord Halifax reviews 3,500 cadets and students in Kenan Stadium Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, came to Chapel Hill with Governor J. Melville Broughton and reviewed a combined parade of about 3,500 Pre-Flight cadets and Naval ROTC, V-12 and Army ASTP students in Kenan Stadium, then spoke to the units. University officials and the heads of the Army and Navy units greeted him. People: J. Melville Broughton, R. B. House, John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), December 4, 1943, p. 1
  46. Vice President Henry A. Wallace visits the Pre-Flight School Vice President Henry A. Wallace toured the Pre-Flight School and stopped in Navy Hall to talk with cadets and their visitors. People: Henry A. (Henry Agard) Wallace Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), December 18, 1943, p. 1
  47. The Pre-Flight School gives Christmas parties for Chapel Hill schoolchildren The Pre-Flight School gave Christmas parties for the community's elementary schoolchildren aged 6 to 12, separate by race: white children on December 27 in Navy Hall and Black children on December 28 at the Navy band's quarters in Carrboro. Each party had a tree or Santa, ice cream, cookies, fruit and gifts for every child. People: John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), January 1, 1944, p. 1
  48. The Pre-Flight regiment parades for the university's first Naval ROTC graduates On Graduation Day for the first graduates of the university's Naval ROTC unit, the Pre-Flight cadet regiment and band held a dress parade in their honor. Captain William S. Popham, professor of naval science, wrote to thank the school for the tribute. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), March 4, 1944, p. 1
  49. Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, a presidential hopeful, speaks in Memorial Hall Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, then seeking the Republican presidential nomination, spoke on a Saturday night in Memorial Hall to a large crowd of officers, cadets and university students. Earlier he called at Navy Hall to see Ohio acquaintances serving at the Pre-Flight School. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), March 11, 1944, p. 4
  50. A new band of Black Navy musicians from Great Lakes takes over at the Pre-Flight School A new Navy band of about 40 Black musicians arrived from the Great Lakes training station under Chief Musician Chancey S. Seeley, a Navy man of more than twenty years, to replace the band that had served the school since 1942. Unlike the first band, recruited entirely in North Carolina, its men came from many parts of the country. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 29, 1944, p. 1
  51. Commander Graff hands the Pre-Flight School to Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh at a Kenan Stadium review Before about 4,000 people in Kenan Stadium, Commander John P. Graff gave up command of the Pre-Flight School to his executive officer, Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, and left for duty overseas. University president Frank P. Graham gave the main address and a scroll from the state and university, Governor Broughton and Josephus Daniels spoke, and Graham said 13,000 cadets had entered the school. People: Frank Porter Graham, J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, R. B. House, James P. Raugh, John P. Graff Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 15, 1944, p. 1
  52. Free French naval aviation cadets begin training at the Pre-Flight School A detail of 36 Free French naval aviation cadets under Lieut. (jg) Jean Polfrit came to Chapel Hill for physical and pre-flight training and English. Twelve of them, by their own account, had escaped occupied France and Spanish prisons to join the Free French in North Africa; they drilled in the school's reviews and the national headquarters of the French naval aviation training program was in Chapel Hill until August. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 13, 1944, p. 4
  53. Eddie Rickenbacker speaks to cadets and townspeople at Fetzer Field Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, the leading American ace of the First World War, inspected the Pre-Flight program and spoke at Fetzer Field to 1,600 cadets in a crowd of about 5,000 that included university students and townspeople, urging physical fitness and teamwork. The school and the university's International Relations Club sponsored the visit, and Captain W. S. Popham introduced him. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 13, 1944, p. 1
  54. The Pre-Flight School holds D-Day vespers in Emerson Stadium On the day of the Normandy landings, cadets, officers and crew gathered in Emerson Stadium for special vesper services, led in prayer by Chaplain George W. Cummins for the men in the invasion. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), June 10, 1944, p. 4
  55. Pre-Flight cadets are told the Navy is cutting back pilot training The whole regiment of cadets met in Memorial Hall to hear that the Navy would substantially reduce its pilot training program because aerial losses had run a third below forecasts. Each cadet got a letter from Rear Admiral A. W. Radford, and Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh explained the choices, including combat aircrew duty for those who left. People: James P. Raugh Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 1, 1944, p. 1
  56. Twelve WAVES live on the third deck of Alexander Hall Twelve enlisted WAVES, eleven of them serving the Pre-Flight School as laboratory and dental technicians and storekeepers and one with the university's V-12 unit, were quartered together on the third floor of Alexander Hall. Two WAVES officers began teaching navigation to cadets that summer. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 15, 1944, p. 1
  57. Townswomen, students and Navy wives make 36,618 surgical dressings for the Pre-Flight medical department Women volunteers working with the local Red Cross, 26 Chapel Hill women, 21 university students and 59 Navy wives, made 36,618 surgical dressings for the station's medical department, giving about 1,157 hours, under the supervision of Mrs. Earle C. Waters. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 23, 1945, p. 3
  58. All-American Otto Graham reports to the Pre-Flight School as a cadet Otto Graham, Northwestern's All-American football and basketball player, arrived in Chapel Hill as a naval aviation cadet with the 58th Battalion and joined the Cloudbuster football squad, which opened practice under Lieut. Comdr. Glenn Killinger with Lieut. Paul Bryant coaching the line. People: Otto Graham Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 19, 1944, p. 1
  59. The French naval aviation training program moves its national headquarters out of Chapel Hill The national headquarters of the French Naval Aviation Training Program left Chapel Hill for Norfolk and Washington with Lieut. Comdr. Raymond L. Arnoud and Lieut. Louis LeCoz, while French cadets continued to train at the Pre-Flight School with liaison officers. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 5, 1944, p. 1
  60. The Pre-Flight School lengthens its course from 12 to 25 weeks Beginning with the 64th Battalion, which arrived in mid-November 1944, cadets at Chapel Hill trained on a 25-week syllabus instead of 12 weeks, so that new classes would stay into the summer of 1945. In July 1945 the course was cut back to 19 weeks. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1945, p. 3
  61. Otto Graham becomes the first Pre-Flight football player named to a national All-America service team Cadet Otto Graham, the Northwestern star who quarterbacked the 1944 Cloudbusters, was named to the Associated Press All-America service eleven, the first player from the Chapel Hill school so honored. Six other Cloudbusters got honorable mention. People: Otto Graham Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), December 15, 1944, p. 4
  62. Paul Bryant becomes head of football at the Navy Pre-Flight School When Glenn Killinger was detached for Florida, Lt. Comdr. Paul W. Bryant, the former Alabama end who had been line coach of the 1944 Cloudbusters, was named head of the school's football training course. He was to coach the 1945 varsity, whose season the Navy cancelled before it began. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 2, 1945, p. 1
  63. Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets Seven journalists of the newly freed French press, on a U.S. tour run by the Office of War Information, flew into Chapel Hill on a Sunday morning, ate the noon meal with the school's French cadets in Lenoir Hall and toured Navy Hall, Graham Dormitory and Woollen Gym. They also stopped at the university's Institute for Research in Social Science and the University Press. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 9, 1945, p. 1
  64. The Marine detachment that taught Pre-Flight cadets small arms is disbanded The Marine Aviation Detachment, which had taught the cadets small arms and gunnery on the range and in class since 1942, was disbanded and its seven enlisted men sent to Camp Lejeune, with Navy gunnery specialists taking over. Its commander was Warrant Officer Faustin E. Wirkus, once known as the White King of La Gonave in Haiti. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), February 23, 1945, p. 1
  65. More than 6,000 Navy men, students and townspeople mourn President Roosevelt in Kenan Stadium All Navy personnel in Chapel Hill, university students and faculty and townspeople, more than 6,000 in all, held a memorial service for President Roosevelt in Kenan Stadium. UNC president Frank P. Graham gave the eulogy, Pre-Flight chaplain George W. Cummins arranged it, the cadet choir sang and the Pre-Flight band's Black chorus sang Finlandia. People: Frank Porter Graham Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 20, 1945, p. 1
  66. The Pre-Flight School marks the German surrender with vesper services in Memorial Hall Instead of celebrating, the school observed victory in Europe with vesper services for all hands, their families and friends, the cadet choir singing, and Chaplain George W. Cummins preaching on 'Work and Worship'. The commanding officer and the chief of air primary training told the men to keep at work until Japan was beaten. People: James P. Raugh Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 11, 1945, p. 1
  67. The Pre-Flight School marks three years with more than 15,000 cadets sent on to flight training On its third anniversary, kept as a regular work day, the school counted more than 15,000 cadets who had finished its course and gone on to primary flight training since the first battalion arrived in May 1942, and noted that for more than a year it had been the only Pre-Flight school training French cadets. People: James P. Raugh Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), May 25, 1945, p. 1
  68. The first class of French naval officers begins a Pre-Flight course at Chapel Hill An initial group of French naval officers reported for a four-week Pre-Flight course, the first officers of the French Navy trained at the school; they went on to Memphis in early July. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1945, p. 3
  69. Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards play a tennis exhibition before 1,100 fans at Chapel Hill On a USO tour of service camps, tennis champions Bill Tilden, then 52, and Vincent Richards stopped at Chapel Hill and played for about 1,100 spectators; Tilden beat Richards 6-1, 6-1, and the pair then won a doubles match against a Pre-Flight instructor and a cadet. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), June 15, 1945, p. 4
  70. The outdoor pool named for Commodore O. O. Kessing is formally dedicated The outdoor pool completed in 1943 and named by the university trustees for Commodore O. O. Kessing, the school's first commanding officer, was dedicated during the Pre-Flight sports finals. Chancellor Robert B. House presided, Comdr. James P. Raugh and President Frank P. Graham spoke, and a cypress plaque was unveiled in the pool's rock wall; the pool served the school, the university and the town. People: Oliver Owen Kessing, R. B. House, Frank Porter Graham, James P. Raugh Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), June 29, 1945, p. 3
  71. The Cruise Club for the Navy enlisted men of Chapel Hill opens in the American Legion Hut The ship's companies of the Pre-Flight School and the university's naval units opened the Cruise Club, their own social club, in the American Legion Hut on East Rosemary Street with a chicken buffet and dancing to the Cloudbuster swing band. The enlisted men had fitted up the building themselves. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 6, 1945, p. 3
  72. Philippe de Gaulle, son of General de Gaulle, trains at the Pre-Flight School with 29 other French naval officers A second class of 30 French naval officers, including Lt. (jg) Philippe de Gaulle, son of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, reported for a four-week Pre-Flight course; 13 of them held the Croix de Guerre. They finished and left for primary flight training at Memphis on August 6. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), July 13, 1945, p. 1 · Also: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), August 10, 1945, p. 4
  73. Chapel Hill celebrates the end of the war with Japan on Franklin Street As the news spread that evening, townspeople, students and Pre-Flight School cadets filled Franklin Street while the campus bells rang and the fire siren sounded. Revelers draped the trees with toilet paper and lit a bonfire in the central block, and a policeman who tried to put it out was pushed aside. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 203
  74. The Navy orders all Pre-Flight trainees out of Chapel Hill by October 1 and the school decommissioned Word reached the school that all trainees were to be transferred by October 1 and the school decommissioned soon after; about 1,000 of the 1,400 cadets were bound for separation centers. The commanding officer said the dormitories and other university buildings used since 1942 were being handed back as fast as possible for the university's postwar needs. People: James P. Raugh Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), September 21, 1945, p. 1
  75. UNC holds a farewell assembly for the Navy Pre-Flight School As the war ended the university held a formal assembly to say goodbye to the Pre-Flight School; Chancellor R. B. House had told the Navy that any peacetime Navy program should fold into the NROTC and the regular degree. People: R. B. House NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 35
  76. The Pre-Flight area reopens to students and townspeople as the last cadets leave Station restrictions were lifted, the no-admittance signs, sentry huts and barriers came down, and the part of the campus the school had held since May 1942 was opened to university students and the town. The last cadets were transferred over the weekend, leaving staff to close the school by mid-October. Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1945, p. 1
  77. The Cloudbuster prints its last issue, counting 18,700 cadets trained at Chapel Hill The Pre-Flight School's weekly closed with an eight-page special, its 156th issue since September 19, 1942. It counted 18,700 cadets received for training, 1,220 officers indoctrinated as instructors, 360 French cadets and 78 French officers, and printed farewells from Mayor Robert W. Madry, who named every man of the station an honorary citizen of Chapel Hill. People: Robert W. Madry, James P. Raugh Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1945, p. 1
  78. The old Pre-Flight Armory reopens as a Scuttlebutt snack bar and bookstore Instead of razing it for a dormitory, the university turned the Pre-Flight School's armory into a second Scuttlebutt, a soda fountain, bookstore and student hangout in the lower quadrangle. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 44
  79. The university tears down the old Pre-Flight Armory on the day it was to meet student defenders University officials bulldozed the former Pre-Flight Armory, then the Emerson Scuttlebutt, on the same day they were due to meet students petitioning to keep it, and did not come to the meeting. The administration said refreshments would move to the Monogram Club. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 45

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