[4] In 1962, the corps was composed of a forty-two-member horn line, twelve-member drum section and an eighteen-member color guard.

Members of the ensemble wore "brilliant blue satin and black" buccaneer-style uniforms with silver trim and black "flat-crowned" hats with white ostrich feather plumes.

[5] The Reading Buccaneers were the last drum and bugle corps to win the VFW championship as the award was retired in 1962.

The Buccaneers were also the last to win the Drum Corps Associates World Championship in 2023.

In 1965, the Reading Buccaneers became a charter member of Drum Corps Associates.