Endnotes for Chapter XVI

1 (l) First Wacs to the field were in AWS units. While AAF WAC strength was greater in the field, ASF was greater if training centers were included. (2) The chief source of reference for this chapter is the AAF WAC Hist, by Lt. Col. Betty Bandel. (See Bibliographical Note). On the basis of 1945 reports, Colonel Bandel estimates 42,000 women as the AAF WAC top, including those in pipeline from training centers or to overseas theaters. Later AAF statistics set the actual top at about 40,000. Statistics used here do not always agree with later TAG re-evaluation of reports, but were those available to the AAF in its wartime planning. See Table 9: "WAC Asgd to AAF," and Table 13 (for 1946), in AAF Statistical Digest, World War II, prepared by Office of Statistical Control, AAF Hq. Hereafter cited as AAF Stat Digest. On file at U.S. Air Forces Historical Division, Air University; Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Hereafter referred to as USAF Hist Div. See also Table 4, Appendix A.

2 WAC CO, Mather Field, Calif. AAF WAC Mist, p. 20.

3 WDBPR Press Release, 20 Oct 43.

4 AAF WAC Hist, pp. 62-64.

5 Ltr, CG AAF to all Air Forces and Comds, 22 Feb 44. WDWAC 341 (3-16-44).

6 Before its assignment to A-1, the Air WAC Division had been briefly in A-4 (ACofAS for Materiel, Maintenance, and Distribution).

7 AAF Hq Office Instruction 5-13, 29 Nov 44.

8 In order: (l) Speech, Maj Bandel, Min, Stf Dirs Conf, New York, 1-3 Dec 43. SPWA 337 (11-10-43). (2) AAF WAC Hist, pp. 12, 49, n. 1, 67, 84; also AAF Ltr 35-83. 29 Apr 44, and 21 Aug 44, pp. 65, 85, 86-87. (3) Memo, Exec WAC for CG AAF, 22 Feb 44, returned, 9 Mar 44, by CG AAF for further study. (4) See overseas chapters below, particularly Ch. XXI.

9 AAF Reg 35-44, 10 Nov 43, revised and amended 14 Sep 44, 18 Oct 44, and 19 Jan 45: "WAC squadrons will be commanded by WAC Officers, who will have administrative authority and duties analogous and equivalent to those of a company commander . . . . The WAC squadron commander is charged with housing, messing, supply, discipline, training, recreation, morale, well-being, maintaining WAC squadron records, and rendering necessary reports .... Recommendations for changes of status, including promotion, reduction, transfer, discharge, etc., may originate with the Officer in whose section or unit the Wac is working, or with the WAC squadron commander. In all such cases the recommendations must bear the indorsements both of the Officer in whose section or unit the Wac is working, and of the WAC squadron commander."

10 (1) AAF Reg 35-49, 13 Jan 44. (2) AAF Ltrs: 35-119, 3 Aug 44: 35-152, 6 Nov 44; 35-175, 27 Dec 44 and 14 Feb 45; 35-175a, 6 Mar 45; 35-47. 6 Apr 45; 35-65, 12 Sep 44; 35-89, 9 Apr and 28 May 45. (3) AAF Manual 120-2, WAC Insp Manual, Hq AAF, 10 Apr 44. (4) AAF WAC Hist, pp. 45, 46, 67, and 84; AAF Reg 120-12, 25 Dec 43.

11 (1) Memo, CofAS for G-1, with Ind. WAAC Hq, 17 Apr 43. SPWA 314.7 (1-7-43) sec 1. (2) Memo, Arnold for Marshall [Jun 43], with reply from G-1. 20 Jun 43. SPWA 324.5 CAP (3-25-43). (3) Hist Recs Rpt 319, History of ATC: Women Pilots in ATC. USAF Mist Div. (4) For further discussion, see Summary of WASP Controversy, Appendix D.

12 (1) AAF WAC Mist, pp. 19 and 41. (2) AAF Reg 35-45, 12 Nov 43. (3) WDBPR Press Release, 14 May 46. (4) Memo, AAF for Dir WAC, 30 Aug 45. WDWAC 319.1 AAF.

13 (1) For list of Specification Serial Numbers sec AAF Stat Contl Rpt SC-PS- 123, sub: Strength of AAF Pers in WAC Within Continental U.S. by Comd, SSN, and Race. (2) Hist Recs Rpt 315c, Wacs in European Division, AFC, June 1944- August 1945, by European Division. ATC. USAF Hist Div.

14 AAF WAC Hist, pp. 41-42.

15 Ltr, Gen Yount to Dir WAC, 5 May 45. WDWAC 201.22.

16 Rpt cited n. l3(1). Administrative jobs totaled 46 percent, plus undoubtedly some of the group marked "Duty."

17 AAF WAC Hist, p. 66.

18 Ibid., pp. 12, 42, 66-67. Appendix shows 242 WAC weather specialists.

19 Ibid., pp. 13, 31-32, 66.

20 Memo, Sgt Goodwin for Col Hobby, 17 Apr 44, re inquiry from Air Chief Marshal Frederick W. Bow-hill. WDWAC 211 Control.

21 Memo, Air WAC Off for Asst Chief WAC Br G-1, 19 Apr 44. WDWAC 211 Control.

22 Ltr, forwarded to Hq AAF by 1st Ind, Hq AACS, 4 Apr 45. AACS 220/1.

23 AAF WAC Hist, p. 67.

24 Ibid., p. 13.

25 Ibid.. pp. 13, 36.

26 Memo. Chief, Classif and Repl Br AGO, for Dir WAC 24 Apr 44. SPX 220.3 WAC (11-30-43) OC-H, in WDWAC 201.6.

27 See Table 5, Appendix A, for division by occupational groups of total enlisted AAF Wacs in zone of the interior, 31 January 1945. The complete breakdown for both enlisted women and officers by SSN, race and air command is given in the report cited n. 13(1).

28 For a condensed summary of jobs held by AAF WAC officers in the United States, 31 January 45, see Table 6, Appendix A.

29 AAF Hq Office Instr 35-25, 25 Sep 43.

30 AAF Ltr 121-48, 29 Mar 45.

31 AAF Stat Digest, Tables 9, 10, and 15.

32 AAF WAC Hist, p. 34, n. 1.

33 Granted 10 Jun 44. AAF WAC: Hist, pp. 74-81.

34 Granted November 1943, ahead of blanket authority cited in preceding note. First ATC unit overseas was one to Hawaii, March 1944.

35 WAC Pers With Air Forces Overseas, Jan 45, Table 28, AAF Stat Digest. 1946:

European Theater    2,835
Mediterranean    457
Pacific Ocean Areas    2
Far East Air Force    694
China-Burma-India    287
Air Transport Comd    2,755
Other (AACS, Etc)    285
Total    7,315

36 See Chs. XXV and XXVII, below.

37 AAF WAC Hist, pp. 94, 96, 97.


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