JoAnn Sesher Webb Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
What's in the full collection?: August 2013 oral history transcript. and photographs.
Full 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.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Air Force -- WAF
Conflict: Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Subject headings: Korean War, 1950-1953
United States. Air Force
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: JoAnn Webb standing next to a sign; 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.

: Oral history interview with JoAnn Sesher Webb; Primarily documents the life of JoAnn Webb and her service in the United States Air Force. Webb recounts her childhood growing up in Pennsylvania, her memories of the beginning of World War II, her desire to join the military, and her time in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Webb describes the work she was required to do as an Airborne Interceptor Navigator, her bout with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, meeting her husband who was also in the air force, and their eventual decision to marry and leave the military. Personal topics include the enjoyment and pride Webb felt in her role in the military, and her thoughts on how military veterans should receive better treatment than they do.

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