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Title
[Woman's
Auxiliary
Air
Force
in
parade
,
circa
1943]
Date
1943
Date approximate?
yes
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Other--British WAAF
Item description
Members
of the
Woman's
Auxiliary
Air
Force
(UK)
march
in a
parade
with
eyes
left
,
circa
1943
.
Vera
G
.
Griffin
is
first
from the
left
.
Veteran's name
Griffin, Vera Grace Keen
Veteran's biography
Vera
Keen
Griffin
(b
.
1923)
of
Ewell
,
Surrey
,
England
served
in the
British
Women's
Auxiliary
Air
Force
(WAAF)
from
1940
to
1944
.
Vera
Keen
Griffin
was
born
in
Ewell
,
Surrey
in the
United
Kingdom
in
August
1923
. She
graduated
from
high
school
in
1937
at
age
fourteen
and then
worked
as a
nanny
for
several
years
.
In
March
1940
she
joined
the
Women's
Auxiliary
Air
Force
(WAAF)
of the
British
Royal
Air
Force
(RAF)
in
London
. She
went
to
Innsworth
in
Gloucester
for
basic
training
, and was then
sent
to
Melksham
to
learn
to
become
a
cook
.
Griffin
was then
stationed
in
Liverpool
,
working
in the
kitchen
and
living
in a
merchant
marine
hotel
. She
married
in
January
of
1943
, but her
first
husband
was
killed
four
months
later
.
Griffin
then
requested
a
transfer
to
Coastal
Command
Headquarters
in
Middlesex
,
closer
to her
home
town
. She
married
her
second
husband
, an
American
soldier
, in
August
1944
. She was
stationed
in
Middlesex
until
her
discharge
in
December
1944
when
she
became
pregnant
.
After
WWII
,
Griffin
moved
with her
husband
to the
United
States
. They
lived
in
Maryland
,
Pennsylvania
, and
Delaware
with their
three
sons
.
Griffin
moved
to
North
Carolina
in
1997
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Posed military unit
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
WV0238 Vera K. Griffin Papers
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
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subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
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above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0238.6.003
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
900812682
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