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- 1944-09-01
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
On Saturday September 2, 1944 Virginia Greening officially became a WAVE, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emegency Service. In this photograph taken for the Tacoma Times she is shown holding four photographs of her brother Lt. Col. Charles Ross Greening, who was a prisoner of the Germans. He had been shot down on a mission over Italy. Both Virginia and her brother survived the war.(T. Times, 9/2/44, p. 1).
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners of war; Military personnel; Greening, Virginia; Greening, C. Ross;