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The Cloudbuster Nine

Keene, Anne R. · 2018 · Skyhorse Publishing

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

The Forgotten First

Albright, Alex · 2013 · R.A. Fountain

"B-1 was comprised of the first African Americans to serve at rank higher than messman in the modern Navy. B-1 was also the first of over a hundred black World War II Navy bands; its members were 'the best, most talente…

NC Cardinal UNC Durham Library of Congress

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

UNC

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

Keefe, Carey Henry · 2022 · KöehlerBooks

UNC

United States Navy Pre-Flight School : research materials

2004

UNC

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

Pendergraph, William L. · 1993

UNC

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Flight of the avenger : George Bush at war

Hyams, Joe · 1991 · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

UNC

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

UNC

This mark of commendation ...

1946 · Department of the Navy

UNC

Camp Davis vs. North Carolina Pre-Flight.

1943 · [United States] : Published by the Athletic Associations of the five U.S. Navy Pre-Flight Schools

UNC DPLA

Camp Lejeune vs. No. Carolina Pre-Flight.

1943 · [United States] : Published by the Athletic Associations of the five U.S. Navy Pre-Flight Schools

UNC DPLA

Judy was dynamite

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

UNC

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December 1941 Chapel Hill organizes civilian defense after Pearl Harbor Within days of Pearl Harbor, Mayor John Foushee called for hundreds of civilian-defense volunteers, and armed sentries guarded the airport, the University Lake…Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 12, 1941, p. 1 (Committee Headed by Mayor Lays Plans for Community Aid in Defense)

May 1942–October 1945 Navy Pre-Flight School operates at UNC 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 H… People: Ted WilliamsUNC Libraries exhibit: A Nursery of Patriotism, Training Programs

July 1942–April 1944 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 P…Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Pioneers of integration (May 25, 2017)

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NC LIVE: DigitalNC NC LIVE The Cloudbuster, the Pre-Flight School’s own newspaper, and the wartime Yackety Yacks
UNC Wilson Library: U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School (UNC) Photographic Collection, 1942-1945 UNC-Chapel Hill Related to the chronology entry “Navy Pre-Flight School Operates at UNC” (May 1942–October 1945).
NC LIVE: Military Database NC LIVE Naval aviation training in the Second World War
NC LIVE: Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection NC LIVE The Chapel Hill Weekly and Daily Tar Heel on the cadets in town
NC LIVE: prepared search for The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945 NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read

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Context: North Carolina History Project: A Campus Transformed, UNC During the Second World War North Carolina History Project Related to the chronology entry “Navy Pre-Flight School Operates at UNC” (May 1942–October 1945).
Context: UNC Libraries exhibit: A Nursery of Patriotism UNC-Chapel Hill The university at war, 1861 to 1945, with the Navy Pre-Flight School
See the place: NC DNCR: Pre-Flight School (G-140) NC Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources Related to the chronology entry “Navy Pre-Flight School Operates at UNC” (May 1942–October 1945).
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC: The Cloudbuster DigitalNC The Navy Pre-Flight School’s own newspaper, 1942 to 1945
Read contemporary evidence: NC Digital Collections: World War II North Carolina Digital Collections Wartime records and photographs from the state
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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Friends of the Orange County Public Library. “The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945.” Orange County Indexed, https://focplnc.org/orange-county-books/topics/navy-pre-flight-school-1942/. Accessed September 19, 2026.

Indexed records are gathered from library and archive catalogs across North Carolina, last refreshed September 14, 2026. Chronology entries were last updated September 14, 2026.

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The Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, 1942–1945