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Joseph Jennings transcript, 1922-2008, Date acquired: 12/07/2001, bulk 1941-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Jennings, Joseph
Extent:
1.00 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Joseph Jennings Transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0199.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of Joseph Jennings, who was enlisted in the U.S. Navy and worked as an aircraft radio operator during World War II and served in the South Atlantic guarding the Brazilian coastline near Rio do Janeiro. The interview covers his duties and anecdotes, like his training in Norfolk, VA, his emergency appendectomy, and his time in Dutch Guyana. The interview also describes his early years during the Great Depression in Oklahoma.

Biographical / historical:

Joseph Jennings was born in Oklahoma City on September 14, 1922. He graduated from high school in 1941 and was working for his father's advertising distributing agency when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted the following January and was sent to Norfolk Naval Base for training. There, he became a self-taught "struck" for a radio operator in planes, and later was trained as a gunner and did anti-submarine radar patrol on the Atlantic coast. His squadron was later deployed to the South American coastline patrolling the area from Barbados to Natal (Brazil). His duties included the training of some Brazilian troops and a convoy escort.

Acquisition information:

James Tollerton

Donated to The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience.

Custodial history:

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

Processing information:

Revised 08/03/2017 by Alberto Miguel Pérez-Rueda

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], Joseph Jennings Transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0199.

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