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Title	[Margaret Greene and airman in Norwich Cathedral, 1944]
Date	1944
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	Margaret Greene sits across the table from an U.S. airman in an alcove of the Norwich Cathedral Bishop's Palace, which was the Red Cross headquarters, in 1944.
Veteran's name	Greene, Margaret Anne
Veteran's biography	Margaret 'Peg' Greene (1917-2002), of Greenville, South Carolina, a member of the physical education faculty at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1946 to 1979, served in Europe during World War II as a member of the Red Cross . Margaret 'Peg' Greene was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on 6 August 1917 and graduated from Parker High School in 1935. She then studied physical education at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG) until 1939. She transferred to Appalachian State Teachers' College in Boone, North Carolina, and graduated in 1940. Greene's first job was as director of recreation in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she helped organize activities for soldiers at nearby Fort Bragg . In August 1942, Greene joined the Red Cross. In the middle of training in Washington, D.C., Greene was sent overseas on a troop transport ship. She spent a short time in London before being assigned to the Red Cross club in Bristol, England, for six months and later Norwich, England, for another eighteen months. In Norwich, she was the program director and then the assistant director. After D-Day in June 1944, Greene went to France as director of a club in Cherbourg. She was then director of an officers' club in Luxembourg for two months in early 1945 before going to Viviez, Belgium, as director of another club. Greene returned home in August 1945 and was assigned to Fort Meade, Maryland, where she trained Red Cross workers . In 1946 Greene left the Red Cross and returned to the Woman's College as a faculty member. She taught physical education until retiring in 1979. Peg Greene died on 28 September 2002.
Place	Norwich (England)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0099 Margaret Greene Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0099.6.005
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/
OCLC number	900811689

[Margaret Greene and airman in Norwich Cathedral, 1944]

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