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1 X XI JL JL T XJLXI I -f j (Continued from page I)Army, does not go into effect until Sept. 30, the WAACs in this theater will receive 20 per cent overseas bonus and V-mail privileges. They will not be eligible for government insurance or Class k'E allotments until Sept. 30, however. Cap?. Wilson also said the WAACs here would be sworn into the Army sometime before Sept. I.When they arrived by train at this station the WAACs demonstrated their military training and discipline by taking 12 minutes to adjust packs, clear the platform and start marching to their barracks.The WAAC contingent included girls who only a few months ago were students, secretaries, models, telephone operators, chorus girls and the good-looking kid who served them “off the arm*’ in Max's Dineron U.S. Highway No. 1.They were women who gave up defense jobs like Jean Bishop, 22-year-old spot welder in a bomber plant from Hillsdale, Mich., and Sina Thompson, shipyard welder from Siietz, Ore. They were married and single, mothers and grandmothers, like 43-year-old Pfc Margaret Conklin, of Susanvilie, Cal., ex-practicai nurse with six children, a half-dozen grandchildren, a 20-year-old son in the Infantry and a son-in-law instructing Chinese air cadets in Arizona.Some have husbands, sweethearts and brothers in service, already buried on foreign battlegrounds or who are prisoners of war, like blonde Margie Simpkins, of Chistiansburg, Va., who is waiting for a USAAF P38 fighter pilot sweating out the war in a German prison camp.When the battalion is split up and dispatched to Air Force stations each unit will have its own administrative body, will have communal mess with enlisted men or mess separately, at the discretion of the station commander. In any case-they will be eligible for KP, according to Capt. Wilson. A number of the WAACs will be sent to Signal Corps schools to study British operations and procedure.
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London Stars and Stripes
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Jul 20, 1943
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