Mass Oath-Taking Climaxes Navy Day Celebration – 232 Men Enlist in Navy – Parade Given

B-1 marching in Raleigh’s 1942 Navy Day Parade. Photographic Archives, North Carolina Collection, UNC-CH

Raleigh’s first war-time observance of Navy Day began with a gala parade through downtown and concluded with a patriotic program at Memorial Auditorium.

B-1 seated in orchestra pit, Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. Photographic Archives, North Carolina Collection, UNC-CH

In the parade, B-1 was one of nine bands who marched–along with 1,300 cadets from the UNC Pre-Flight School–from “the State College entrance” on Hillsborough Street to auditorium, where the induction ceremony began about 4:30 p.m., and which also featured B-1.