In 1943 in Chapel Hill, the boys of summer readied for war

Posted May 21, 2018
75 years ago, a train carrying Boston Red Sox slugger and future Hall of Famer Ted Williams screeched into Durham. For the next three months Williams bunked at the University of North Carolina, where the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School housed the most difficult and dangerous physical training program in the world for fighter pilots—the Top Guns of their generation. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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