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Title	[Betty Pegg Hemphill beside sign at Keesler AFB, circa 1950]
Date	1950
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF
Item description	Betty Pegg Hemphill, in civilian clothes, poses beside a sign for the 3408th Student Squadron at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, circa 1950.
Veteran's name	Hemphill, Betty Sue Pegg
Veteran's biography	Betty Hemphill (1932-2008) of Guilford County, North Carolina, served in the Women’s Air Force from 1949 to 1951 and then with the U.S. Postal Service from 1967 to 1992 . Betty Hemphill was born in High Point, North Carolina, in February 1932. She was raised on a farm in nearby Colfax. Hemphill enlisted in the Women’s Air Force in August 1949 and was sent to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, for basic training. She was then stationed at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, from October 1949 to March 1950, where she attended supply school. She was transferred to Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, Texas, where she worked in base supply and played on the softball team. Hemphill was then assigned to Keesler in Biloxi, Mississippi, for eight months, where she worked as squadron supply officer. In June 1951 she transferred to Fayetteville, North Carolina, and worked a recruiter. While there, she met Ralph Hemphill, and they were married in December 1951. She was discharged in June 1952 when she became pregnant . The Hemphills moved to Greensboro in 1955 and raised three sons. In 1967 Betty Hemphill went to work for the post office, and in 1974 she was appointed postmaster. Hemphill retired from the USPS in 1992 and passed away on 7 August 2008.
Place	Biloxi (Miss.)
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	WV0235 Betty Pegg Hemphill 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	WV0235.6.005
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	900812824

[Betty Pegg Hemphill beside sign at Keesler AFB, circa 1950]

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