"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 talented musicians in North Carolina.' B-1 was formed from a nucleus of NC A&T students and graduates, trained at Norfolk, and served at Chapel Hill with the Navy's pre-flight school and at Pearl Harbor, where they were stationed at the largest posting of African-American servicemen in the world."--Page 4 of cover.
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"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 talented musicians in North Carolina.' B-1 was formed from a nucleus of NC A&T students and graduates, trained at Norfolk, and served at Chapel Hill with the Navy's pre-flight school and at Pearl Harbor, where they were stationed at the largest posting of African-American servicemen in the world."--Page 4 of cover.
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