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Interview with Roy H. Lake (1923-2018), a member of the U.S. Navy B-1 Band, the first all-African American Band in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Verso of the audiotape includes the U.S. Navy B-1 Band Reunion Memorial Service at the Baptrist Student Union of East Carolina University on 10/19/2003. Received 11/10/2003.

This collection contains oral histories by individuals connected to the university, including alumni, faculty, staff, and donors.

Photocopy of a diary (1941) of U.S. Army Air corps navigator on airplane flying Averell Harriman Diplomatic mission to Moscow.

As I Saw It: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, A 1993 Interview with Capt. John E. Bennett, USN (Ret.), member of the U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1941.

Interviews with members of the U. S. Navy B-1 Band, the first African-American Navy Band during World War II.

Much of this colletion remains unprocessed. The processed portion contains the administrative records, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and scholarship and research materials relating to exploration and early settlement of the English Colonies in North Carolina, 1644-1700, of Herbert R. Paschal, Jr.

Material (1862-2017) including correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, narrative reminiscences, and a muster roll (1862) and other original documents related to Dr. William N. Still, Jr.'s career as a well-known and respected maritime historian and author. His research topics included shipbuilding in North Carolina, maritime history, and Naval history in the American Civil War through World War II.