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tIETO’sGreetingtoWAAC Over; Members Stand Reveille To dayBy Phflip BucknellStars and Stripes Staff WriterWAAC REPLACEMENT DEPOT, England, July 25—The WAACs are ready for work after a week of parades, reviews and dances. The ETO’s greeting to the First Separate Battalion of the WAAC to land has ended.The festive atmosphere here will be replaced this week by the routine the WAACs have been trained to perform. They have been oriented, given physicals, classified, assigned and entertained by a program that was toppedoff with Bob Hope. They like it, butJap Seaplane Carrier SunkALLIED HQ., Southwest Pacific, July 25—U.S. torpedo and dive-bombers with a strong fighter esco# sank a 9,000-ton Japanese seaplane carrier and its 20 aircraft Saturday morning out of a convoy attempting to run supplies into Buin, main Jap base in the northern Solomons.Land-based enemy fighters attempting to intercept were driven off with the loss of five Zeros. Three U.S. fighters were lost.As American troops were tightening the ring around Munda on New Georgia,U.S. dive-bombers blasted the Jap base with 60 tons of bombs.In New Guinea a strong force of Mitchells with P40s escorting made long bombing and strafing sweeps along the coasts of Huon Gulf, about 40 miles east of Lae, and destroyed 12 barges and either destroyed or seriously damaged 13 more barges. Other attacks were made on barges in Cape Busching area. One, apparently loaded with oil, exploded and two others were set afire.Both in the Solomons and in the northwestern islands, Allied bombers have attacked Japanese seaplane pases. ReJcata Bay on Santa Ysabel Island received a visit from Mitchells and Dauntlesses. Installations were attacked and fires started. Taberfane in the Aru islands was attacked yesterday afternoon by formations of RAAF Beaulighters. They damaged three floatplanes caught on the' beach and strafed shore installations along the coast.Big China Air Victorythey came over here to work, they point out, and are anxious to begin their jobs with the Air Force.At a final review by Maj. Gen. Tra C. Eaker, Eighth Air Force commander, and Maj. Gen. Jean Knox, ATS controller, the GI Janes ended their first week in Britain. Gen. Eaker told them they were the ambassadors of their country.Precision FormationGen. Eaker took the review in company with Gen. Knox and Capt. Mary A. Halleren, fivefoot commander of the battalion. Capt. Anna Wilson, the WAAC ETO commander, remained modestly at the rear of the stand, and made up the back file when the line was trooped.With the precision that is now expected of the WAACs, the battalion marched on to the reviewing field, led by Capt. Mary Dixon, executive officer, of Ithaca, N.Y. On their shoulders were the insignia of the AAF, and on their chests the ETO ribbon, which had been pinned on previously by Capt. Thomas Shallcross, Philadelphia ; 1 /Lts. Arthur Berman, San Antonio, Tex.; Wern G. lsenburg, Had-don Heights, N.J.; A. Abrams, of Philadelphia, and 2/Lt. R. L. Zogg, of Syracuse, N.Y.There was no hesitation or fumbling as the girls entered in column formation, faced and formed up in front of the reviewing stand. The flag was carried in by the color guard, Pfc Mary C. Waterman, of Appleton, Wis., Pvts. Ethel D. Rudolph, of Milwaukee, Wis., and the bearer, Dorothy E. Whinnery, of Anoka, Minn.While the CBS band softly played “Over the Waves,” the diminutive Capt. Halleren led tali Gen. Eaker along the line of WAACs. He told her after thatfContinued on page 2)
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Mon, Jul 26, 1943
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