Joseph Griggs was drafted into the Navy in Macon, Georgia, immediately after high school in 1943. By the fall of that year he had been rated as a 3rd class fire control man and rangefinder operator and assigned to the USS Twiggs. He served in the Pacific theater.

Transcript Number 207 Title: Joseph Griggs: Remembering World War II Interviewee: Joseph Griggs Interviewer: Paul Zarbock Date of Interview: September 9, 2002 Location of Interview: Wilmington, NC Description: Mini DV Documentation: 1 Typed Transcript Series: World War II Veterans Oral History Preservation Project Series: Voices of Experience