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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943
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UMC In Wartime
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School Has Sent
Men To Battle
Since Founding
Out of the freedoms won in the
Revolutionary war came the Univer
sity of North Carolina, Said Rever
end McCorkle in his dedicatory speech
for Old East in 1793, "Liberty and
law call for general knowledge in the
people and extensive knowledge in
matters of the State, and these in
turn demand public places of educa
tion." If UNC was born of wartime vic
tory and idealism, it has certainly
sent her young men out to fight the
battles of the republic whenever the
nation called. First test came in 1812,
when Tar Heels fought with Jack
son to save New Orleans. Then, the
Mexican episode and again Carolina
men were in the saddle.
Saddest battle in which UNC alumni
gained honor and prestige was the
"War Between the States. The story
of the University during the tragic
years of civil strife is one of man
power resources poured into the fight.
Within two years after the war broke
out, enrollment dropped from 376 to
63 ; and even those 63 would have
been in the service had not the Presi
dent of the Confederacy stated that
"the seed corn should not be ground
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CAROLINA'S SATC, some 650 strong, took the oath of allegiance that day of induction on October 1, 1918. Then-President E. K. Graham leads the students
in the words of the oath. The first training unit assigned to Carolina, the SATC soon came in for ridicule, was renamed, "Stuck At The Colleges."
up." But the turning tide of conflict
demanded even , greater sacrifice and
on 1866's commencement day, three
Seniors received their diplomas.
The manhood of the South was bled
White and of the many who left to
fight with Lee and Jackson, only a
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few returned.
It wasn't until the first World War
that preparation for conflict was
brought to the campus. Speeches by
then-President E. K. Graham and
Spanish-American War veteran Char
les Helmer introduced the men to the
SATC. Every male falling under the
proscribed regulations automatically
was inducted into the Student Army
Training Corps of the University of
North Carolina, went to classes as
before, got private's pay for doing it.
Only changes in regular routine
were the extra orders, uniforms,
dormitories were to be called bar
racks. Soon the initials SATC were
re-interpreted to mean "Stuck At The
Colleges." Finally, shipment orders
for the first contingent came through
a week before the armistice. Out
of the Army's grandiose plan for mass
production of officers had come chaos
and futility.
Training Plan
In World War II, America's war
chieftains profited from experience
and when December 7 came, plans
were already drawn up for the great
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est program of officer-training in his
tory. First result of this program for
Carolina was the coming of the Pre
Flight school. Navyators were to get
their toughening here before going
on to flight training. The time was
short, the program tough. Obstacle
courses, sports, classes got the body
and mind ready for fast action. There
was no time to waste on amenities,
you either produced or got out. By
the same token, there was no time
for the cadets to get well acquainted
with the campus and Carolina life.
Only liaison officers between the civil
ians and upper-lower quad Pre-flight
were the coeds, who served very effec
tively in this capacity.
By the end of 1943, there were on
active duty wherever the Navy fights,
1,000 flyers who had originally pass
ed through Chapel Hill Pre-flight. The
first five battalions had already re
ported for active duty and each week
another group left to go on to flight
training and finally to combat service
in the "greatest air arm any fleet
possesses.
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But even before war brought Pre
flight in all its vastness, a more con
servative program had been instituted.
In the NROTC the Navy had set up
a college , unit that would produce of
ficers on graduation. NROTC men
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Civil War Took
High Percentage
Of Enrollment
received a diploma in one hand, a
commission in the other. Entrance
standards kept high by special tests,
the NROTC was the closest any group
J came to Annapolis.
In July of '43, there was no longer
any doubt as to what the prime func
tion of the nation's colleges was. To
Carolina were sent 1,300 men former
V-7, V-l, NROTC, Marine Reserves
in the new V-12 program. The stu
dents were allowed to remain in col
lege for shortened times, lived under
Navy rule, in bell-bottoms, ROTC
Final addition to the wartime scene
blues, Marine khaki,
were the soldiers in ASTP. Studying
languages, these men would go out to
serve AMGOT wherever needed.
The war that had been going on for
10 years in various lands suddenly
took on definite and ugly shape as a
true world conflict. The Carolina cam
pus has felt, as it had to, the impact
of this struggle for survival.
First it was a few leaving to sign
up, then the units, and now the V-12.
Carolina has sent its sons into battle
for the republic. In 1943 it was train
ing many thousands more of them
for active duty.
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