Manuscript Collections - Lynne C. Quiggle Scrapbooks

LYNNE C. QUIGGLE SCRAPBOOKS, 1930-1958
2 linear feet (5 oversize boxes)
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lynn Cline Quiggle was a US Navy officer from 1930 until his death in 1958. As Executive Officer of the destroyer Aaron Ward he was involved in the transfer of American destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for naval bases in 1940. Quiggle received a Bronze Star while serving on the battleship Iowa. As Pacific Fleet Readiness Officer at Pearl Harbor he helped plan and was present at the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Quiggle also served: with the Strategic Plans Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; on the staff of the commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe at Naples, Italy; Chief of Staff of the United Nations component of the Military Armistice Commission in Korea, and Deputy Chief of Staff of the United Nations Far East Command in Japan.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of five scrapbooks and four folders of items that were tucked into the scrapbooks that document Lynne Quiggle’s naval career. Materials include: photographs, letters, telegrams, and ephemera. Scrapbook volume four was not included in the donation, its whereabouts are unknown.

FOLDER LIST

Box      Contents

1          Scrapbook 1, May 1930–Apr 1943. Photographs and documents, Quiggle's early career,
             each ship he served on, transfer of destroyers to Great Britain in 1940, construction and
            commissioning of the battleship Iowa. 

2          Scrapbook 2, Apr 1943–Sep 1945. Photographs and documents, the battleship Iowa,
            shipboard life, President Roosevelt's trip to Africa in 1943, entry into Japan in September
            1945, prisoner of war camps, Japanese surrender ceremony.

3          Scrapbook 3, Sep 1945–May 1948. Photographs and documents, Iowa in late 1945 and
            1946, subsequent staff duty and shore leave, hand drawn diagram, of the atomic tests at
            Bikini Atoll.

4          Scrapbook 5, Apr 1953–Feb 1956. Photographs and documents, July 4, 1953
            celebrations in Eastport, Maine featuring the Mount Olympus, shipboard accident
            Oct 1953; Allied Forces Southern Europe 1953-1955; social functions.

5          Scrapbook 6, Feb 1956–Oct 1957. Photographs and documents, Transport Amphibious
            Squadron 8, Korea, UN commanders and staff, UN facilities, local people, winter
            conditions, North Korean negotiation officials.

            Quiggle, Lynne
                     Nametags of North Korean Officers, 1956 (?)
                     Photographss, undated
            Quiggle, Anne
                     Correspondence, 1953-1958
                     Photographs, 1955