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ever - as in Europe - there were cities, housing accommodation, civilized communities into which freedom-loving American girls could go see a movie or make friends with a family that suggested the friendly families back home. Even from Europe, when Wacs were used as mobile units just behind the lines, reports came back occasionally that the problem of housing and caring for women over-weighed the advantage of having their clerical skills, if they were used in extreme forward areas. 

Reports indicate that the program was less efficient in the more isolated areas, such as the islands of the Pacific, where it was difficult to provide accommodations for women and where it was necessary to guard their camps and in other ways to insure their constant protection. One military policeman returning from the southwest Pacific commented that "it wasn't that the girls made any trouble - not a bit of it", but just the fact that there were several hundred white women in a camp in desolate, isolated country near the front lines, where Japanese snipers were close at hand, made for extra guard duty for the MP's. As soon as large cities, like Manila, were occupied and became the site of the higher headquarters, this situation of course ceased to exist, but while it did exist it provided WAC squadron commanders with one of their principal morale problems, when the two or three hundred women under their command had from childhood walked through the fields, woods, or city streets of America at any hour of

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