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                         THE RECORDS OF
                  THE COLLEGE FOR WAR TRAINING

             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                            CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                           27514-8890

                              10/92

     These papers, dated June 1940-June 1945, contain the
official records of Francis Foster Bradshaw, who was Dean of the
College for War Training, 1943-1945. The College, established in
1942, grew out of the Committee on the University and National
Defense, of which Bradshaw was chairman. Guy B. Phillips of the
School of Education was the Executive Officer of the College.

     The College and the Committee sought ways to implement and
coordinate the University's efforts to meet the demands placed on
it by the United States' involvement in World War II. As the unit
responsible for the University's role in the war, the College for
War Training advised on curriculum and program adjustments; was
the liaison with various branches of the military which
established units on the campus; handled personnel matters
related to the war, including the military status of the faculty,
staff, and students; assigned space to the military units; and
was the office responsible for planning for the education of
returning veterans and the implementation of the GI Bill.

     The papers reflect the University's role in the
establishment of the NROTC; the Carolina Volunteer Training
Corps; the V-12 and the V-5 naval programs; the Army Specialized
Training Program and the UNC Flying School. There is also
correspondence about the Selective Service Act and the passage of
the GI Bill. There is considerable correspondence with other
colleges and universities about their war programs and plans for
the post-war era. There is nothing in these papers about the
actual running of the Navy's Pre-flight School at Chapel Hill.
[N.B. The Pre-Flight School was established in May 1942. The V-12
Program began in July 1943. The Carolina Volunteer Training Corps
was a student organization. The UNC Flying School was part of the
Civilian Pilot Training Program of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration (C.A.A.).]

     There is some material that derives from the work of three
University committees appointed to coordinate the University's
efforts in the national emergency. These committees were the
University and National Defense Committee, the Committee on War
Programs, and the Committee on Post-war International Problems.

     Dean Bradshaw's file of printed and mimeographed material,
which illustrates the response of higher education in the United
States to the national emergency, has been retained and is filed
chronologically with the papers.

     The papers are arranged chronologically in two boxes.

     Box 1: June 1940-February 1943

     Box 2: March 1943-June 1945, n.d.