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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	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	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

[Woman's Auxiliary Air Force in parade, circa 1943]

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