Word: waacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the task of photographing and fingerprinting prospective enrollees, there will be short preliminary addresses by staff officers of the First Fighter Command, and also WAAC officers...
Married. Major James Warner Bellah, 43, veteran flyer, adventure writer; and Third Officer ("second lieutenant") Helen Lasater Hopkins, 27, of the WAACs; he for the fifth time; in Nashville. She said the ceremony was the first WAAC wedding...
...When two WAACs were arrested last week by Fort Leavenworth, Kans. MPs for being absent without leave and shipped to WAAC authorities at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, the New York Daily News headlined the story "2 WAACs Go AWO -Oh, My!" A newsman asked Colonel Don C. Faith, in charge of WAAC training, what punishment was meted out.wired that Colonel Faith's attitude was "STRICTLY QUOTE NO COMMENT UNQUOTE." Most likely punishment is discharge as the Army has no guardhouses for girls...
...December the school will be graduating 1,000 WAACs, enrolling as many new ones, each week. By April 1943, the present 25,000 quota of the WAAC will be filled...
Where the WAACs will fit into the Army remains to be seen. Some of the subjects now in the curriculum: Army cooking, motor transport, aircraft spotting, close-order drill, use of civilian and military maps, practice in gas mask use, leadership, organization of the Army and the WAAC, methods of training and, above all, company administration and property accountability...