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authority to Army Airways Communications System, another AAF organization which shipped its own personnel overseas to fulfill its world-wise mission.(2) Air Transport Command had already taken advantage of this authority by sending a WAC unit to Hawaii in March, and other ATC WAC units went to ETO and to Labrador in June. Army Airways Communications System later placed WAC personnel at several overseas stations where ATC WAC units were on duty, notably in ETO and Alaska.

Wacs Sent to All Theatres

With the mechanics for filling overseas AAF WAC requisitions fairly well established by March, when AAF was given authority to fill the ETO AAF WAC quota, Air Forces outlined a comprehensive program for supply of Wacs overseas. It published, 6 March 1944, AAF Memorandum 35-38, Selection and Preparation of WAC Personnel for Overseas Assignments, as a guide for the selection and preparation of WAC personnel for overseas shipment. The memorandum required that such personnel must be fully qualified, recommended by the appropriate WAC squadron commander, and, to the greatest extent possible, desirous of overseas duty.

A request for several hundred Wacs had been received in February from air forces in the China-Burma-India theatre, and a little later a request for over two thousand Wacs was received from Far Eastern Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific


2. First Indorsement to letter from AACS to Commanding General, AAF, subject: Assignment of WAC Personnel, dated 29 July 1944.

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