Margaret Griffin Papers
Content Description
This collection includes the 1949 United States Navy publication United States Submarine Losses; the 1947 book While So Serving; a December 1944 copy of The American; a 17 May;1945 Navy Department press release The United States 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 ribbon pin.
Dates
- 1941-1949
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Margaret U. Griffin enlisted in the United States 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.
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (4 Folders.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Victoria Hinshaw.
- United States. Navy -- History
- United States. Navy -- History -- 20th century
- United States. Navy -- Women
- United States. Navy--Women
- Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES)
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- Title
- Margaret Griffin Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Victoria Hinshaw
- Date
- 2023 January
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository