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jurisdiction. This action took place before the Statistical Control Units in AAF had been apprised that there was to be a change, and no method even for reporting WAAC personnel to AAF Headquarters, much less for administering it, had been developed.  (2)

Time for Action

When the ASP paper arrived back in M, M, and D, and landed in the office of the new Air WAAC Officer, the time for action had obviously come. Although the requirements schedule for WAAC post Headquarters companies, AAF, did not fit in to the new system for assigning Waacs as casuals, and although it would obviously not provide for the exact needs of each air base, it was the only schedule which AAF had - and it fitted in to AAF's current system for assigning over- head personnel in activated units. On 6 May 1943 AAF sent a paper (1) to ASF point out that it had not had sufficient 


2. Within a short time the Statistical Control Division in AAF Headquarters worked out a system under which WAAC personnel was reported, by grade and military occupational  specialty, as part of a base's total military personnel. In addition, a separate column on each monthly report showed, for information only, the total no of women assigned at a base by grade and by each air command simply by applying normal rules for supervision  of all military personnel, except where obviously inapplicable. In such case the commands followed whatever rules the War Department had laid down - or got hold of AAF Headquarters by long distance telephone.

1. Letter to commanding General, ASF, from commanding General, AAF, subject: WAAC Personnel, Army Air Forces, dated 6 May 1943.

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