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only on jobs which clearly required military personnel (4), opened the way for weather observers and statistical control machine operators who later came to AAF Headquarters to work with the weather group and the statistical control division of AAF Headquarters. On 25 December the AAF regulation was published which provided for WAC air inspectors in all echelons of AAF commands (1), and on 6 January 1944 an AAF regulation came out stipulating that no WAC enlisted women would be placed on commutation of quarters and rations except as a temporary measure to meet an emergency need. Air Forces moved another step forward in its program to integrate its Wacs into the AAF scheme of things when an army regulation on the WAC uniform, published 31 January, provided that WAC personnel would wear the insignia of the arm or service to which assigned. Thereafter Air Wacs wore the wings and propeller of the Army Air Force as the branch insignia on their jackets.

On 7 March plans were crystallized for training and utilization of 1000 Wacs in the AAF's statistical control units throughout the country, and within a short time these women, after six weeks of training at the AAF Tactical Center in Orlando, Florida, were manning statistical control tabulating


4. Cf. p. 12, text and Note 1.

1. Cf. p. 45, text and Note 1. This regulation was followed in April by the publication of the AAF WAC Inspection Manual, dated 10 April 1944, as a guide to all officers inspecting WAC units.

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