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Chinn, John A. (Second World War correspondence)
2016.004.w.r
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: John A. Chinn Second World War correspondence
source:
Chinn, Denice
Creator:
John Chinn
Creator:
Erma Chinn
Identifier/Call Number: 2016.004.w.r
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
(21 folders)
Date (inclusive): 1942 - 1945
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence written by SSgt. John A. Chinn, USAAF, to his wife Erma Chinn during World War Two.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: WWII 82
Container: 1-8
Container: 1-8
Container: WWII 83
Container: 1-7
Container: 9-15
Container: WWII 84
Container: 1-6
Container: 16-21
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Denice Chinn, 1/20/2016.
This collection is arranged by material type and date:
- Series 1: Correspondence from John A. Chinn to Erma Chinn
- Series 2: Correspondence from Erma Chinn to John A. Chinn
- Series 3: Correspondence from Mrs. Jack Chinn to John A. Chinn
- Series 4: W.M. Woodward and Elwin C. Woodward to Erma Chinn
- Series 5: Miscellaneous Correspondence
- Series 6: Ephemera
Staff Sergeant John Arthur Chinn, United States Army Air Force, was born on February 18, 1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to
John Russell Chinn and Valeda Marie Decker. He married Erma Jayne Woodward in February 1942, the same month he joined the
United States Army Air Force. He served in the Second World War and earned the rank of Staff Sergeant with the 63rd Air Depot
Group in Cairo until he returned from overseas in November 1945. SSgt. Chinn passed away on March 29, 1989 in Sacramento,
California.
[Item title, Box number, Folder number], John A. Chinn Second World War correspondence (2016.004.w.r), Center for American
War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
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collection, including permanent URL's, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
This collection contains correspondence written by SSgt. John A. Chinn, USAAF to his wife Erma Chinn during the Second World
War. It also contains several letters from Erma Chinn to SSgt. Chinn, from Mrs. Jack Chinn to SSG Chinn and from W.M. Woodward
to Erma Woodward Chinn. SSgt. Chinn's service in the Army Air Corps included training at Patterson Field in Fairfield, Ohio,
Chanute Field in Rantoul, Illinois, Sheppard Field in Wichita Falls, Texas and at Brookley Field in Mobile, Alabama. He served
as an airplane mechanic in Egypt. John and Erma Chinn lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945) -- Homefront
World War (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945) -- North Africa
Correspondence -- World War, 1939-1945
Airplanes, Military -- Maintenance and repair
Sheppard Field (Tex.)
United States -- Army -- Air Forces
Chinn, Denice