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The Allocations and Programs Division, which was charged with planning for use of Waacs in the AAF (1), was not to be outdone by Personnel. On the eleventh of December the division sent a memorandum, for AAF, to the War Department, G-3 Division, stating that Air Forces had been allocated 57,500 Waacs by a directive issued in the fall, pointing out that a need existed for some 10,000 more than that to fill the requirement for AWS and the post headquarters companies which had already been planned for 1943, and asking that the AAF WAC quota be raised to 68,000 for 1943. (2)

At the same time (14 December 1942) the division asked domestic air forces and commands to survey all stations to determine the maximum possible use of Waacs in the AAF. Within

1. The first WAAC officer ever to be assigned to Air Forces, other than to AWS activities, had recently been assigned to the Allocations and Program Division of O.C.&R. She was First Lieutenant Katherine Laughlin Fawcett, and many of AAF's early planning papers regarding use of Waacs were prepared by her under the supervision of Colonel Aubrey L. Moore, head of the Allocations and Programs Division.

2. The War Department authorized AAF a quota of 65,000 Waacs out of the first 150,000 recruited (AG Letter to the Commanding General, AAF, AG 320.2 WAAC (3-12-43) PR-W-WDGAD, subject: Expansion and Utilization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, dated 1 April 1943), or about forty percent of the total WAAC strength, and this figure remained the AAF's actual planning figure until the favorable progress of the war made it obvious that AAF's personnel needs would not be as great as had at first been thought. By this time (January, 1945), AAF had a world-wide WAC strength of over 42,000.

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