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Marvin S. Waits collection, 1941-1945, Date acquired: 2001-07-24, Date accessioned: 2020-04-13

 

Summary

Creator:
Waits, Marvin S., 1921-2005
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Marvin S. Waits collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-01-0299

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Marvin S. Waits who served with the 14th Air Force in China. He was enlisted from 1942-1945. This collection contains an interview with Waits with information about his experiences in China during the war, the censorship in the US Army, the terrors in the mission, and the relationship between soldiers and local people.

Biographical / historical:

Marvin S. Waits was born in Florida on August 26, 1921. He was born and raised in Gainesville, FL, and attended the University of Florida on a football scholarship until enlisting. He entered the service on November 17, 1942 in Gainesville, FL under the aviation cadet program. Waits completed flight training all over the South and graduated in June of 1944. He completed crew training at Chatham Field, Georgia, and was sent to China in December of 1944 as a B-24 bomber pilot. Waits and his crew flew forty-eight missions to India and strategic targets in and off the coast of China. Many of his missions took place at night and without formation. Waits earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals for his service with the 14th Air Force in Luoyang and Chendtu, China. Following the war, Waits entered the US Marshall's service for 19 years before being appointed chief clerk for the US District Court for 23 years. Waits was married to Marjorie R. Waits, and the two had three daughters. He passed away on March 21, 2005 in Tallahassee, FL. His obituary can be found at https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tallahassee/obituary.aspx?n=marvin-s-waits&pid=3320242&fhid=4646.

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated by Marvin S. Waits. The collection was acquired my the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on July 24, 2001.
Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Marvin S. Waits collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-01-0299

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA