Date of Enlistment: 15 Aug 1942
Place of Enlistment: Jackson, MS.
He was a Merchant Mariner from Beaumont, Mississippi. He took ten years off his actual age (said he was born in 1909 instead of 1899) in order to join. He had no wife or children.
Griffis, Loyd Jefferson – Seaman 2nd class
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