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In June the Air Support Branch in the AAF Headquarters request organization of WAAC Signal Companies - just when WAAC T/O units had gone out of business. It was explained that bases, through commands, could submit requestions for individual Waacs to do signal assignments. Tinker Field, Oklahoma, in August asked for five WAAC graduates of the Army Finance School, of which none was available, and in September came back, enthusiasm undampened, with one more request  for WAAC cooks - this time for use in an officers' mess. This request probably resulted from an arrangement which AAF had made in late June and early July to secure several hundred cooks for use in the diet kitchens of AAF hospitals. The need for special care in the preparation of attractive meals for patients was felt to be so great that the War Department waived its prohibition against the use of WAAC cooks in anything other than WAAC messes. The project had released several hundred male cooks for inclusion in combat units being shipped overseas, and Tinker Field doubtless based its request - which was, of course, refused, under the general policy against use of women in military messes - upon the success of the project.
A special flurry developed with regard to Army Airways Communications System, when an AACS region ruled, in a directive 10 June 1943, against the use of women in air field control towers as anything but clerks. The directive was based on the desire not to interfere with the training of men as control tower operators, and stated that "under no circumstances will

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