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Joes and Generals Okay the WAACsBy Richard WilburStars and Stripes Staff WriterThe WAACs have settled down towork.For two weeks now members of the First WAAC Separate Battalion have been working as plotters in highly secret Eighth Air Force operational rooms, as switchboard operators, as secretaries and stenographers, as cooks and KPs.Yesterday the Joes and the generals who’ve been working with the girls at Eighth Bomber and Fighter Commands summed up what they’d decided after watching the WAACs Handle their jobs for some 14 days.A sergeant in the mail distribution section at Bomber Command headquarters said he was surprised at the efficient way WAACs assigned to his section get things done.A major, hustling through the corridors of A-l section, offered the comment: “By God. they’re damned good, Til tell you that.”The only complaint from the WAACs themselves to date, according to a WAAC first sergeant, came from several who don't feel they have enough work to do.Here’s an idea of WAACs on the job at(Continued on page 2)Associated Press PhotoMesshalls at some Eighth Air Force stations are well-occupied these days. It’s probably because American women, taught to cook by mother, have taken over the kitchens. Here, two soldiers line up for a meal as WAACs dish out their merchandise.
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London Stars and Stripes
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Aug 16, 1943
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