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Title	[JoAnn Webb standing next to a sign, circa 1952]
Date	1952
Date approximate?	yes
Item description	JoAnn Webb is seen here standing next to sign at Lackland Air Force Base, TX, circa 1952. The sign reads: 741st WAF (Women in the Air Force) Training Squadron Supply.
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF
Veteran's name	Webb, JoAnn Sesher I.
Veteran's biography	JoAnn Sesher Webb (b. 1933) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served in the Women in the Air Force (WAF) from 1952-1954 . JoAnn Webb was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May, 1933, spent the majority of her adolescence in Springfield, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Fountain Hill High School near Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1951.After graduation, Webb joined the United States Air Force, initially signing up for three years of service. In February of 1952, she attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, before being stationed at Roslyn Air Force Base in Long Island, New York, working as a plotter at the Early Warnings Radar Station.In late 1953, Webb contracted Eastern Equine Encephalitis from a mosquito, and spent November 1953 until January 1954 recovering at Mitchel Air Force Base in Long Island, New York. After returning to Roslyn Air Force Base, Webb met her husband, who was also in the air force. They married and Webb left the military in 1954.
Source collection	WV0548 JoAnn Sesher Webb Papers
Collection summary	August 2013 oral history interview. and photographs.
Place	San Antonio (Tex.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Preferred citation	[Identification of item], [Identification of collection], Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
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	WV0548.6.001
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/
Digital collection homepage	http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/WVHP
OCLC number	900815951

[JoAnn Webb standing next to a sign, circa 1952]

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