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Title	[Shirley Brantley and man, circa 1952]
Date	1952
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF
Item description	Shirley Brantley, wearing her air force summer uniform and holding a cigarette, stands with an unidentified man outside a building, circa 1952.
Veteran's name	Brantley, Shirley Ann Dowd
Veteran's biography	Shirley Dowd Brantley (b. 1934) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a dental technician in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1954 . Shirley Dowd Brantley was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1934. She graduated from South Hills High School in 1952 and immediately enlisted in the air force. She completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas in the fall of 1952 and and then trained to be a dental technician at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois. In January 1953 returned to Lackland, and in October of that year met Charles Brantley, an air force dental lab technician. The two were married in November of 1954, and Brantley was discharged the following month . After her service, Brantley moved to Monroe, North Carolina, with her husband. There they ran a sandwich shop. When her first child was born, she and her husband moved to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and they later relocated to Durham, North Carolina. Brantley has eight children and currently resides in Statesville, North Carolina.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0211 Shirley D. Brantley 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	WV0211.6.001
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	900811917

[Shirley Brantley and man, circa 1952]

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