Endnotes for Chapter XXIX

1 Ltr, Exec WAAC to Comdt 5th WAAC Tng Cen, 2 Apr 43. SPWA 320.2 sec 4a.

2 Ltr, WAAC Hq to Comdt, 1st WAAC Tng Cen, 7 Jun 43, and 1st Ind, 14 Jun 43. SPWA 320.2 sec 4a.

3 Office Memo, Opn Div WAAC for Exec WAC, 14 Apr 43. SPWAO, in SPWA 320.2 sec 4a.

4 AAF WAC Hist.

5 (1) AG Memo W635-I I-43, f3ju1 43. (2) Memo, Dir WAC for Gen White, G-1. 3 Jun 44. WDWAC 320.2.

6 D/F; MPD ASF for TAG, 18 Feb 44. SPAP 320.2 1NAC (2-10 44). Rescinds AG Memo 210.31 (12-14-43) 23 Dec, 43. See M/R.

7 (1) Ltr. Asst AG USFOR CT, to CG AAF CT, 12 Aug 45, 322 WAC. (2) Ltr, WAC Stf Dir AAF CT to Air WAC Off, Hq AAF, 22 Feb 45. CBI WAC files.

8 (1) D/F cited n. 6. (2) WD Cir 291, 11 Jul 44. (3) See ASF WAC Officer's file of acceptances and rejections in SPAP 210.3 WAC: also WD Cir 362, 6 Dec 44.

9 Rad 982, USFOR London to WAR, 17 May 43. SPWA 320.2 sec 46.

10 D/F; G-1 for CG ASF, 3 Jul 43. WDGAP 201.5 WAC, in SPWA 320.2 sec 4b.

11 1st Ind, SGO to Dir MPD, ASF, 30 Mar 44, SPMCB 322.5-1. Folder, Capt Berlien notes, SGO Hist Div.

12 Conv, Capt Strayhorn and Col Freer, 9 Ju1 43. G-1 WAC 312-312.9, Drawer 6, DRB AGO.

13 Denser Post July 4, 1945.

14 History of Women's Medical Unit (rough draft; only one ever filed) by Lt Col Margaret D. Craighill, MC, 23 Jul 46. SGO Mist Div 314.72.

15 All references to opinions of psychiatrists, unless otherwise stated, are from History of Psychiatry in the Women's Army Corps, 1946, by Maj. Albert Preston, Jr., MC. SGO and Hobby files.

16 Hist cited n. 14.

17 Ltr, CO WAC Det 1, Camp Butner, N. C., through Camp Comdr to Dir WAC, 11 Aug 44, with Inds. WDWAC 220.3.

18 Memo, MPD ASF for G-1, 24 Nov 43. SPGAP 322.5 WAC (11-24-43). Incl is WAC objection. Disapproved by G-1 on 13 Dec 43 appealed by MPD on 17 Dec, and refused again by G-1 on 1 Jan 44. All in SPAP 341 WAAC (2-26-43).

19 (1) Tp Conv, Col Hobby and Maj Galloway, 22 Mar 44. Tp Transcripts, G-1 WAC 312-312.9, Drawer 6. DRB AGO. (2) Min of all WAC Stf Dir Confs. SPWA 337.

20 Memo cited n. 18. In same file: (1) Ltr Dir WAC to Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, 25 Aug 44. (2) Ltr, Stf Dir WFTC AAF to Dep Dir Rice, 11 Aug 43; reply 26 Aug 43. (3) WD Cir 61, 10 Feb 44; Cir 462, 1944, Sec II, par 14d. (4) See also AAF Ltr 35 175a, 6 May 45; and Hist of O Dir Pers ASK OCMH.

21 Conv, Gen Gross and Col Hobby, 24 Mar 44. Tp Transcripts, cited n. 19.

22 (1) ASF Hist of WAC Tng. (2) ASF Cir 35, sec VI, WAC Pers, 31 Jan 44. (3) Memo, MPD ASF for CofS ASF, 10 Feb 44, SPGAA 320.2 WAC, in SPAP.

23 Extract, Mil Censorship WAC Det Bull, 4 Star Final, p. 19, Tab 1 to AFPAC Reply. See also Unit Hist Camp Huckstep.

24 (1) 1st Ind, WAC Stf Dir, TC, to Dir WAC, 4 Jul 44, with incls. SPTPM 220.3 WAC, in WDWAC 320.2. (2) ASF WAC Off to Dir Mil Tng ASF, 22 Jul 44, with 1st Ind. SPAP 210.3 WAC. (3) Buck slip, WAC Br G-1 to Dir WAC, atchd to rpt 25 Mar 44. WDWAC 330.14.

25 EFS passage, except as otherwise stated, from written statement by Maj Lathrope, and interv with Maj Lathrope, 6 Apr 48.

26 Sources cited n. 23.

27 For subjects taught, sec ASF Hist of WAC: Tng.

28 (1) Memo, Dir WAC for CG ASF, 4 Jul 44; (2) Memo, MTD ASF for G-1, 1 Aug 44, SPTRP 353 WAC; (3) Memo, MTD ASF for G-3, 9 Sep 44, SPTRP 353 WAC (8-24-44). WDWAC 353.

29 Memo, Dir WAC for Gen Henry, 21 Aug 44. WDWAC 320.2.(C).

30 Craighill IBT Rpt.

31 Rpt, undated, sub: Final Rpt of Dir WAC on Return from World 'lour, 'lab 13: General Observations in All Theaters. WDWAC 333.1 (1945-46).

32 Remarks of Dir WAC, Conf of Overseas Theater G-1's, 15 Oct 46. WDWAC 337 A-S.

33 Rpt cited n. 31.

34 All available reports indicate that at least 55 percent of all women shipped overseas were in AGCT Groups I and II. See Chs. XX-XXIII, above; also ETO Bd Rpt, p. 129. A list of the Overseas WAC Units as of June 1945 may be found in Directory of the AUS Outside Continental United States. AG 461 (6-1-45) OB-I M pp. 269-270.


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