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Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr. collection, 1930-2017, Date acquired: 12/18/2017, bulk 1941-1945

 

Summary

Creator:
Meekins, Enoch Johnston, Jr.
Meekins, Johnette D.
Extent:
2 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr. collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Meekins, Enoch Johnston, Jr., collection. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-17-1934

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Master Sergeant Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr. who served as a Sergeant Pilot and ground crew with the 10th Air Force in North Africa, India, Burma, and China during World War II. The collection contains a Chinese color lithograph print and oral history interview transcript.

Biographical / historical:

Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr. was born on December 27, 1920, in Florence, SC. On the day of December 7, 1941, he was working on bridge construction in Fredericksburg, VA, where he also lived in a boarding house. Meekins, Jr. enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on December 29, 1941, and received basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC where he qualified for the enlisted pilot program. In spring 1942, he attended basic Army Air Corps training for five months at Shepherd Field, TX. Afterwards, Meekins, Jr. transferred to the Army Air Corps Cadet training at Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX. for two months, then returned back to Shepherd Field. He received additional training at English Field, Amarillo, TX, Chanute Field, IL, OSS Power Plant Specialist School, Wright Field, Dayton, OH, Camp Campbell, TN, Aiken, SC Army Air Corps Field, Key Field, Meridian, MS, and Kerns, Utah for weapons training.

Note written by Johnette D. Meekins (Daughter of Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr.)

Custodial history:

This collection was donated by Johnette D. Meekins, daughter of Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on December 18, 2017.

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], Enoch Johnston Meekins, Jr. collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Meekins, Enoch Johnston, Jr., collection. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-17-1934

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