I've just begun reading The Cloudburst Nine: The Untold Story of Ted vWilliams and the. Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II (Anne R Keene) with intro by Claudia Williams. It's about the group the baseball team formed among members of the flight school in Chapel Hill, NC including Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Johnny Sain, who toured the region playing exhibition games and promoting War Bonds.
Another sidelight is the story of the team's batboy and mascot, Jim Raugh, who formed a friendship with many of the big leaguers. Raugh later became an All American and played in minors for a bit but never fulfilled his dream