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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
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Additional rights information
IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
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holder
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for
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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
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