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Chapel Hill preflight training links Bush to WWII legacy
Chapel Hill housed a Navy preflight training program that shaped future leaders including George H W Bush Gerald Ford John Glenn and Bear Bryant. A proposed historic plaque could honor Bush and the many cadets who trained there while a UNC TV program notes the broader wartime impact and local memory.
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Chapel Hill
George Bush
Historic District Commission
Bob Epting
Epting
Bush
Jon Meacham
George Herbert Walker Bush
Navy
Meacham
Barbara Pierce
University
Kenan Memorial Stadium
Barbara Bush
New York
England
Yale
University of North Carolina At
Anne Keene
Keene
Ted Willams
Ers
Williams
Johnny Pesky
Johnny Sain
Cloudbuster Nine
New York Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
Ford