Margaret U. Griffin Papers
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Title |
Margaret U. Griffin Papers |
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Date |
1944-1949 |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Navy--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Navy--WAVES |
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Item description |
Manuscript collection. Not yet digitized. |
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Veteran's name |
Griffin, Margaret U. |
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Veteran's biography |
Margaret U. Griffin enlisted in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)on 3 October 1942 and entered active service 5 December, 1942. She completed service school at the Naval Training School in Milledgville, Georgia and was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Casualty Section, Washington, D.C. Griffin was discharged on 3 December, 1945 as a Yeoman First Class. |
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Type |
Collection |
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Language |
en |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0372 Margaret U. Griffin Papers |
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Collection summary |
The collection contains the 1949 U.S. Navy publication U.S. Submarine Losses, the 1947 book While So Serving, a December 1944 copy of The American, a 17 May,1945 Navy Department press release The USS Franklin Comes Home, copies of The Service Book of Scripture and Prayer and A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors, and The New Testament, and a Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ribboned pin. |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
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Object ID |
WV0372.0.000 |
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Digital publisher |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
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