Endnotes for Chapter XXX
1 See Chs. XVIII, p. 332, and XXIII, above.
2 (1) Tp Conv, Mr. John J. McCloy and Col Hobby, 13 Jan 43; (2) D/F: G-1 to Dir WAC, 26 Feb 43, with atchd, WDGAP 291.2 WAAC; (3) Ltr, TAG to all SvCs. 20 Jul 43, AG 291.1 (7-23-43) PR-1; (4) Memo, Dir WAC for G-1, 17 Feb 44. All in Enrollment of Japanese-American Women, SPWA 291.2 (1-13-43).
3 (1) Memo, MIS for TAG, 16 Jul45; (2) Memo, Tng fir MIS for Pers Br, 15 May 45, MID 908. G-2 MID 324.5 WAC (3-8-43).
4 (1) Min. Gen Council; 4, 12, and 19 May 42. (2) Senate Corn on Mil Affairs, 77th Cong, 2d sess, Hearings on HR 6293, 1 and 4 May 42, p. 1. (3) Draft of Ltr, SW for President; U.S., 14 May 42. WDGAP 320 WAAC, in WDGAP 291.2. (4) Intervs with Mal Ulysses Lee, OCMH, author of The Employment of Negro Troops, a forthcoming volume in this series. (5) See Table 11 . Appendix A.
5 (1) Memo. Tasker for Hobby, 14 May 42. G-1 291.21 WAC. (2) D/1; G-1 for MPD SOS, 24 Aug 42. WDGAP 322.99 WAAC, in CofS 291.9. (3) Memo, MPD SOS for G-1, 12 Sep 42. SPGAM 322.5 WAAC, in G-1 291.21 WAC.
6 Ibid. Also Memo, Opns Div SOS for G-1, 4 Sep 42. SPAOO WAAC (9-3 42), in SPWA 291.9.
7 (1) Ltr, Dr. Mary M. Bethune to Civ Aide to SW. 2 Sep 42. SPWA 291.21. (2) Rpt, Charles Howard to Dr. Bethune, Aug 42. CofS 291.9 WAAC.
8 (1) Min of War Council, 16 Sep 42 remarks of Gen Marshall. (2) PM, Daily Picture Mag, undated copy in Folder. Negroes Morale, WDBPR, file, OCMH
9 (1) Ltrs, Walter White to SW and to Dir WAAC, 28 Oct 42, with M/R atchd; (2) Ltr, Natl Bd YWCA to Dir WAAC, 14 Oct 42; (3) Ltr, Julius Rosenwald Fund to Dir WAAC, 23 Sep 42. SPWA 291.2.
10 Intraoffice Memo. SPWA 291.21 (1942).
11 M/Rs, 4 and 19 Nov 92, of mtgs with Secy NAACP; also Rpt of Investigation by Lt West. SPWA 291.2.
12 Ltr. Rep. George H. Mahon to Dir WAAC, 22 Apr 43. SPWA 291.21.
13 Ltr, Manager KWKH and KTBS, Shreveport, La., 17 Apr 43. SPWA 291.21.
14 Ltr, Comdt 5th Tng Cen to Exec WAAC, 3 May 43. SPWA 319.1.
15 Memos and D/F cited n. 5.
16 Cities were Pittsburgh, Winston-Salem, Colombia, S. C., Dallas, and St. Paul. File of action is WA 291.21 (5-27-42), 19-12. See large file in SPWA 201.2 (1942).
17 Ltr Percival L. Prattis, Exec: Bd, The Pittsburgh Courier, to Dir WAAC, 28 May 42. WA 291.9.
18 (1) Mimeo Ltrs. from Lynchburg, Va., 21 May 42. WA 291.21. (2) Memo. G-1 fir Exec; WAC, 7 Aug 43. WDWAC 291.2.
19 (1) Ltr, Walter White, Secy NAACP, to Dir WAAC, 8 Jun 42, and reply. SPWA 291.2. (2) Ltr. Maj Harriet West to Frances L. Munson, 1 Sep 43. SPWA 291.2.
20 Ltr, 2d SvC to TAG, 11 Sep 42. SPWA 291.21.
21 Memo, Col Howard Clark, Chief, WAAC Operating Serv, for Dir, 21 Apr 43. SPWA 291.2 (1942).
22 Plng Proj 5, May 43, Sample of 1400 of each race. WAAC Plng Serv files.
23 Memo, Mai Martin, Dir Contl Div WAAC for Dir WAAC, 24 May 43. SPWA 291.2 (1942).
24 (1) Tab 1, Memo. Col Branch. Chief WAAC Plng Serv, for Dir WAAC, 15 Apr 43. SPWA 600.914. (2) Memo, same. 31 Mar 43. SPWA 291.2 (1942).
25 See Ch. XXXII, below.
26 (1) Ltr Comdt Ft Des Moines to Exec WAAC 13 May 43. SPWA 319.1. (2) Ltr, Detroit NAACP to SW, 29 Sep 43, with Inds. SPWA 291.2.
27 Ltr, Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce to Dir WAC, 2 Jul 93, and atchd correspondence. SPWA 291.2.
28 Ltr. MID to MIS, 30 Mar 43. MID 291.2/7490-WAAC, in SPWA 291.2.
29 Rpt of Insp, WAC Det Ft Knox, Ky., 6 Aug 43. SPWA 333.1.
30 (1) D/F, Opns Serv SGO for MTD ASF, 17 Aug 44. SPMCT, in SGO Mist Div SPMCM 322.5-1 WAC. (2) Draft of Memo. Dir WAC for SvCs, 11 Aug 43. SPWA 220.3.
31 (1) Memo. Tng Div SGO for MTD ASF, 19 Oct 43, and 1st Ind; (2) Memo, Tng Div SGO for MTD ASF 25 Apr 44. MDETS, SGO 353.1 Ft Huachuca.
32 (1) R&R, Air WAC Off to PRO, 26 Sep 43. AAF 291.2. (2) Mason City, Globe-Gazette, Iowa. January 16. 1945. (3) Atlanta, Ga., Daily World, February 15, 1945. (4) Story, "Locator Wacs," by Mary F. Green in undated, unmarked clipping. Folder, Negroes Field Installations, WDBPR files. (5) Kansas City Call, January 26, 1943. (6) Study. Facts About Negro Women in the WAC. Folder, Negroes Field Installations. WDBPR files. (7) Detroit Chronicle, November 25, 1944.
33 (1) File, Ft Huachuca, SPWA 291.21. (2) Extract from Army Fact Sheet. Women in uniform. 10 May 43, Radio Br BPR. Folder, Negroes - Facts. WDBPR files.
34 (1) WFTC News Release, undated. Folder Negroes-AAF, WDBPR files. (2) WAC AAF Hist, pp. 14, 40.
35 Study made by SGO (incidental to determining factors in health record) of 22,000 accepted applicants, Oct 43 Mar 44. SGO Vied Stat Div.
36 Janet M. Hooks, Women's Occupations Through Seven Decades, U.S. Dept of Labor. Women's Bureau Bull 218, pp. 143-44. The 64 percent applies to "nonwhite" women and does not include charwomen, and the like, who were apparently included in the WAC's 35 percent.
37 See breakdowns of rejection rates by race, printed by Stat Analysis Br Med Stat Div SGO, Feb--Mar 43, and Med Rejections. Nov 42-Dec 44. Med Stat Div SGO.
38 (1) As of 31 Mar 43. See also Memo, Dir WAC for G-1, 14 Mar 95. Folder Material 10 Apr 45 for Cong Appropriations Mtg for Year 1945-46, Tab 7. (2) Memo, Dir WAC for G-1, 14 Mar 45. Hobby files.
39 Ibid
40 File, Fort Huachuca, SPWA 291.21.
41 (1) TIA Rpt, 1 Sep 43, Ft Dix, N.J. (2) Statement to author by Stf Dir 5th SvC. (3) Memo, C1 Br ASF for Chief, Opns Div WAC Hq, 15 Sep 43. SPWA 291.2. (4) Min, Stf Dirs Conf, Chicago, 15-17 Jun 43. SPWA 337 (6-1-43).
42 Memo. SW"s Civ Aide for USW, 17 Aug 42. AG 291.2 Race, Negroes.
43 File cited n. 40.
44 Ltr, Air IG to CG AAF CTTC, with 10th Ind, Dir WAC to Contl Div ASF, 27 Oct 43. SPWA 291.2.
45 Ltr, CofS to AAF, AGF, ASF, with 1st Ind, 13 Jul 43. SPWA 291.2.
46 (1) Memo. Col John Nash for Dir Pers ASF, 6 Apr 45. SPDC, in SPAP 220. (2) Memo. Exec to CG ASF for TSG, 3 May 45. SPDC, in SGO 330.14 Gardiner GH.
47 Ltr, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to Dir WAC. 25 Oct 44, and reply, 16 Jan 45. WDWAC 330.14.
48 D/F. G-1 for Leg and Ln Div, 3 May 45. WDWAC 291.2.
49 (1) Ltr, CG 1st SvC to CG ASF, 13 Mar 45, with incls. SPBVG. (2) Memo Slip. Int Div ASF for Dir Pers ASF, 21 Mar 45, with atchd; and another. 3 Apr 45. (3) Clippings in same file. (4) Weekly Int Summary 164, Hq 1st SvC, 31 Mar 45. SPBIB 350.09. Racial Situation Annex.
50 Following, unless indicated, based on E'1'O Bd Rpt, Vol. 1, pp. 126-29 and Vol III. Apps. 85d and 125.
51 Ltr, Malvina Thompson to Dir WAC, 1 Nov 44, incl Ltr from city editor of AFRO-American, 26 Oct 44, and reply, 4 Nov 44. WDWAC 330.14.
52 Interv with Maj Marjorie Ludwigsen, Hq AAF, inspector of unit for AAF.
53 Rpt on Postal System in ETO 10 Jan 45-15 Feb 45 Rpt 30, Hq ETO Gen Inspectorate Sec. Copy in WDWAC 333.5.
54 Rpt. Maj Frances Clements, G-3. Visit to 6888th Cen Post Bn. WDWAC 333.1 (1945-46).
55 (1) Undated Q and A Series. SPWA 291.2 (1943). (2) Ltr, Editor, Amsterdam News, N. Y., LO WD BPR, 23 Jul 45, and reply. WDWAC 000.7.
56 Series cited n. 55(1).
57 Ltr, Comdt 1st Tng Cen to WAAC Ex, 19 Aug 43. SPWA 291.2.
58 Ltr, ASF WAC Off to Dir WAVES, 4 Nov 44. SPAP 220.3 WAC.
59 (1) Ltr, Headlines and Picture Editor to Dir WAC. 31 Jul 45. SPWA 291.2 (1943). (2) Navy Press Release. (3) WAVES Hist, pp. 78-79.
60 Study, 8 Jul 93, sub: The Negroes' Role in the War, OWI Memo 59, pp. 9-10. SPWA 291.2.
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