The Ti 46 -48 ' 50 (He 3 , d)V 47 » 49 » 51 and Cr 50 » 52 » 54 (He 3 , flMn 51 -63 ' 68 reactions are studied with high resolution at 10-and 9.5-MeV incident energies, respectively. The / values and spectroscopic factors are extracted by means of the distorted-wave Born-approximation calculations. A systematic study of the pm centroid energies, of the dzn and sm proton hole states, and of the splitting of the /> 3 /2 spectroscopic strength is presented. These quantities, and also the individual energy spectra, are compared with the expectations of the shell model and the Coriolis strong-coupling model. It is concluded that the shell model adequately describes these nuclei, while the Coriolis strong-coupling model fails to explain the observed splitting of the pzn spectroscopic strength. 1 The/n dependence of the angular distributions for certain (d, p) reactions is calculated from the weakly bound projectile (WBP) model of Pearson and Coz. Agreement is found with the observed j n dependence. It is suggested that the model can be used for extracting the value of j n from accurately measured angular distributions.