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results. Garments were manufactured according to approved samples furnished to the Research and Development Branch by the manufacturers. The contractors who received awards graded and cut the necessary patterns. The Military Planning Division lent its technical assistance to the Procurement Division by indicating the manufacturers who were to be given contracts. Since the Military Planning Division had worked out the details, such as contacting manufacturers, selecting styles, and obtaining prices, the Philadelphia Depot entered into the procurement only by issuing purchase orders for WASP clothing upon receipt of directives from the Procurement Division, OQMG.60

The period required for development and for purchase negotiations, which would normally extend over a period of several months, had been reduced to an absolute minimum by the complete cooperation of manufacturers, the Director of the WASP, and the OQMG. By October 11, 1943, there were only a few items for which samples had not been submitted to and approved by the director of women pilots. These items, upon which further developmental work was being completed at the request of the Director of the WASP, included the raincoat, parka type overcoat, utility

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[[caption]] WASP Winter Uniform, Beret, and Insignia [[/caption]]

bag, and dress shoes. Samples of all of these items were ready before the end of the month.61 Obviously the November 1 delivery date, however, could not be met, and although large quantities of most of the items had been received at Bolling Field, the distribution point, by the end of December 1943, issue of winter uniforms on an adequate scale could not be accomplished before the early months of 1944.62

The Director of the WASP had also requested the development of distinctive insignia for the women pilots.63 First priority was to be given to the development of flying wings for the WASP. She furnished the OQMG with the size and general design wanted, and her recommendations were incorporated in drawings prepared by the Heraldic Section.64 These wings were based on the silhouette of the Air Corps aviation badges with 

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[[caption]] Fifinella [[/caption]] 

[[footnotes]] 
60 Military Planning Division to Procurement Division, Oct. 1, 1943, "WASP Clothing." [[footnote]]

61 Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory to Headquarters, ASF, Oct. 11, 1943, "Status of Procurement of Clothing for WASP."

62 Col. Henry S. Howes, Office of the Quartermaster, Bolling Field, to The Quartermaster General, Dec. 30 1943, "WASP Clothing Received and Accepted"; Col. G. F. Doriot to Headquarters, ASF, Jan. 11, 1944 (1st ind.).

63 Jacqueline Cochran to the Commanding General, AAF, July 15, 1943, "Uniforms for Women Pilots in the Army Air Forces"; see also H. Bradford Washburn, Jr., to Col. G. F. Doriot, July 22, 1943, "Requirements: Clothing for Women Flyers."

64 Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory to Headquarters, ASF, Oct. 11 1943, "Status of Procurement of Clothing for WASP."

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