The U.S.S. Maddox Papers contain records pertaining to two destroyers named after Captain William A.T. Maddox of the United States Marine Corps. Maddox (DD-622) was launched September 15 1942, and sunk in the Mediterranean on July 10, 1943. Maddox (DD-731) was launched on March 19, 1944, and was decommissioned in 1969.
Research materials used by Florida State University alumna Valerie Lassman to prepare her dissertation and publication A Violet in the Sahara, her biography of Frances Newman. Includes typescript of her book.
