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these letters, AAF Headquarters prepared WAAC exact manning tables for individual bases within commands, according the requisitions placed for the bases, and placed consolidated requisitions for the desired personnel with WAAC Headquarters. On 23 June AAF Headquarters followed its quota letters with other letters giving the individual commands bulk allotments of WAAC officer and enlisted grades, to match the personnel which had been allotted to them. Up to this time, AAF Headquarters had been sending out individual letters allotting WAAC grades to cover WAAC units as each was activated.

Throughout this period, instructions were in effect under which each command was to report to AAF Headquarters how many men Waacs had "replaced", so that the appropriate number of grade and personnel could be withdrawn from male units. Thanks to the complicated system of double bookkeeping involved in maintaining the WAAC units alongside other overhead personnel, commands could and did answer that so-and-so many Waacs had "filled vacancies" which, although already authorized by bulk allotments of personnel to the commands, had never been filled. With thousands of men being withdrawn from commands daily for shipment overseas, it was practically impossible for Air Force Headquarters actually to check whether 15 Waacs just arrived at a small base in Texas threw that base overstrength or not. It is probable that, with the entire

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