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Charles E. Tribble papers, 1940-1956, bulk 1942-1945.
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3 cubic ft.
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Arranged by record type (correspondence, naval records, personal) and then chronological.
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Charles Emerson Tribble was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1904. He graduated from Stetson University (in DeLand, Florida) in 1926 and earned his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1931. Following internship and residencies in New England, he returned to DeLand, where he began a general medical practice in 1934 and a surgical practice in 1935.
In 1942, Dr. Tribble received a Lieutenant Commander's commission in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy Reserve and served on active duty as a surgeon until 1945. After several shore station assignments in Florida, he transferred to hospital operations in various locations of the South Pacific in 1943. He later transferred to the hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) in 1944. While aboard the Solace, Dr. Tribble cared for victims of the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. Later that year, he was detached from duty and returned to Florida, only to rejoin the Navy on a reserve basis in 1948. He continued to hold a commission as a reserve officer until 1956.
In the spring of 1949, Dr. Tribble ran a successful campaign for Mayor of DeLand where he oversaw road improvements and the construction of a swimming pool for the use of Black citizens during a time of segregated swimming facilities. He was also instrumental in attracting Pittsburg's professional baseball team to use DeLand for spring training. When his mayoral term ended, he was unable to run for a second term due to an entanglement in a lawsuit some thought was designed to force him out of the race. Instead, Dr. Tribble continued with his civilian medical practice and transferred to the inactive Naval Reserve in 1952. That same year, he became the first Chief of Staff at the Fish Memorial Hospital in DeLand.
In 1970, the DeLand chapter of Sons of the American Revolution proclaimed Dr. Tribble as "Man of the Year," then in 1976, he earned the Patriotic Citizen Award from the Volusia County Bicentennial Committee, and was honored by Stetson University with the Algernon Sidney Sullivan award and a fifty year diploma. Charles Tribble died on August 10, 1981 in DeLand, Florida.
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This collection documents the life and career of Dr. Charles E. Tribble. Most of the correspondence in this collection is to his wife Ann J. Tribble. Some of the letters are transcribed and the transcriptions are included in this collection. The collection also contains Navy orders and routine correspondence providing a general outline of Dr. Tribble's experiences with the Navy. His ship, the USS Solace, was present at two of the Pacific War's most horrendous bloodlettings: the battles of Iwo Jima (February 19 to March 26, 1945) and Okinawa (April 1 to June 21, 1945).
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Tribble, Charles E. 1904-1981. (Charles Emerson),
United States. Navy.
Military administration. World War, 1939-1945 Florida World War, 1939-1945.
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