IN IRELAND
Private First Class George H. Griffin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ch. H. Griffin, 712 West Eighth Street, a former Muscatine high school athlete, is serving with a U. S. Army infantry somewhere in northern Ireland, where he is a member of a company softball team which recently won the battalion championship. Another member of the same team is Ernest Creno, a West Liberty boy.
In a recent letter to his parents, Griffin described the devastation wrought by enemy bombers at Belfast, Ireland, stating that “those land bombs they have tear practically a whole block at a time.”
Source: Muscatine Journal & News Tribune, June 12, 1942 (photo included)
George H. Griffin was born May 1, 1919 to Clarence Henry and Nellie M. Frutig Griffin. He died June 7, 1980 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Cedar Falls, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
