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of the Special Projects Office in AAF Headquarters, sent a memorandum to General Arnold stating that WAC recruiting was lagging and recommending that the WAC age limit be extended so as to include women from 18 to 50 (3), women be permitted to choose the branch of the service in which they wished to serve, limited service Wacs be recruited, and the 150,000-limit then established for the Corps by law be eliminated.

On 3 June Colonel Clayton DuBosque, head of the Plans and Liaison Division in Personnel, sent a memorandum to the Chief of Air Staff recommending that plans be made immediately for an AAF WAC recruiting campaign between September and December, 1943, and it was on the basis of this memorandum that the recruiting program which was finally accepted by the War Department was worked out. The memorandum cited a letter from G-3 of the War Department General Staff to G-1, dated 23 January 1943, recommending against branch recruiting "until the results of the present campaign are demonstrated". It was pointed out that, as of June, although AAF had a requirement for 130,000 Waacs and an approved quota of 65,000, there were only 10,000 on duty with the AAF. This figure, it was assumed, demonstrated clearly the results of the winter campaign, and gave Air Forces the right to re-open the subject of

3. The War Department consistently refused to lower the age limit for Wacs below 20, on the theory that taking in young girls between 18 and 20 would necessitate a type of close supervision entirely different from that provided for adults and difficult to provide in an organization as big as the army.

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