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Not only did they consider the possible use of WAAC officers on many assignments, but they also studied the factors involved in using enlisted women in many fields. On 3 January 1943 the AAF Director of Weather asked for 40 Waacs to be stationed at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., and to work in AAF Headquarters. The request was refused because of a War Department prohibition against the use of Waacs in the Military District of Washington, except on extremely confidential assignments which required military personnel. (1) Despite this prohibition, the Weather Service remained interested in the use of Waacs, and later had several hundred WAC weather observers, forecasters, etc, working at its various stations throughout the country. In February AAF Headquarters studied the possibility of using some 500 Waacs as "cryptographic personnel", and in March the Air Surgeon inquired as to the possibility of securing some 18,000 Waacs for duty in the larger AAF hospitals. As early as 21 November 1942 AAF Headquarters had received a letter from Brig. Gen. E.L. Eubank suggesting that Waacs be used as Link Trainer instructors, since men suitable to act as such instructors were rapidly disappearing into the AAF's officer candidate schools. AAF's interest in using Waacs as radio operators and mechanics was so great that, in March of 1943, WAAC Headquarters arranged to have WAAC personnel trained in the radio field at Midland

1. This prohibition, established in October of 1942, was the first of a series of rulings made by the War Department to guard against the use of Waacs on assignments which could properly

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