This image shows students enjoying the Kessing Pool shortly after its completion in 1943. Named for Commander Oliver Owen Kessing, the pool provided aquatic training for the Navy Pre-Flight School which trained pilots during WWII.
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This image shows students enjoying the Kessing Pool shortly after its completion in 1943. Named for Commander Oliver Owen Kessing, the pool provided aquatic training for the Navy Pre-Flight School which trained pilots during WWII.
What part of the state is this?
This would be at UNC-Chapel Hill.
NC Postcards has a card of Kessing Pool:
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/nc_post&CISOPTR=3685&CISOBOX=1&REC=9