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Title	[Supply School unit at Warren Air Force Base, circa 1952]
Date	1952
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953 United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF
Item description	Luvenia Griffin Mitchell (far left) with her Air Force Supply School class at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, circa 1952.
Veteran's name	Mitchell, Luvenia Griffin
Veteran's biography	Luvenia Griffin Mitchell (b. 1932) of Tampa, Florida, worked in supply and inventory control with the Women in the Air Force from 1952 to 1955 . Luvenia Griffin Mitchell was born in Tampa, Florida, on December 28, 1932 and was raised primarily by her grandmother in Tampa. After graduating from Middleton Senior High School in 1952 she decided to join the Women in the Air Force (WAF) . Mitchell was sworn into the WAF on 12 August 1952 at Jacksonville, Florida. She attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, and then was stationed at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for three months of supply school. She returned to Lackland in 1953, where she worked in the PX (post exchange) doing inventory control . Mitchell was discharged in 1955. She used the GI Bill to study nursing at the Hampton Institute in Virginia for two years, and then married and raised a family. Later she attended Gibbs Junior College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she studied business. Mitchell worked with Urban League and then in the early 1960s began work in juvenile detention, which she continued until her retirement.
Place	F.E. Warren Air Force Base (Wyo.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Posed military unit
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0200 Luvenia Mitchell Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0200.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900812251

[Supply School unit at Warren Air Force Base, circa 1952]

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