[WAF softball team, 1950]
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Title |
[WAF softball team, 1950] |
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Date |
1950 |
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Subject headings |
Korean War, 1950-1953 |
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Era |
Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963) |
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Service branch |
Air Force--WAF |
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Item description |
Group photo of the Ellington Air Force Base (Houston, Texas) softball team in 1950. Betty Pegg Hemphill is on the front row holding the team mascot. |
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Veteran's name |
Hemphill, Betty Sue Pegg |
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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. |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0235 Betty Pegg Hemphill Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse. |
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Object ID |
WV0235.6.006 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900812807 |
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