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They managed to have some fun; they took in the sights, had more dates than they had ever had in their lives. During occasional air raids, some achieved the WAC ambition: to bolt from barracks, crouch in a slit trench and duck back to bed at the "all clear" without really waking up. Instead of, "What's cooking?" they said, "Nervous in the service...
From three whole WAC battalions only three Janes had gone A.W.O.L. Chief gripe was "Why should we stay behind when the boys open the second front...
...bitter truth was out: recruiting for the WAC has been such a failure that officials last week admitted they were hopeless of filling their quota, figure they will be lucky to keep even a trickle of recruits coming in. War Department officials are afraid they may have got virtually all the women volunteers they ever will get. WAC aim for 1943 was an enrollment of 150.000. Present strength: a little over...
...Said WAC Boss Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, underlining the dismalness of the flop by declaring that there were almost half a million jobs in the Army which women could fill: "Nothing leads me to believe that we are going to get a volunteer army of 400,000 or 500,000 women. We've never been able to get a volunteer army of men that big." War Secretary Stimson hoped that U.S. women would come to feel a personal responsibility "in this total war." But he did not have much hope. Mr. Stimson's recommendation: compulsory service...
...second open letter to the New Republic, Miller reported that his appeal had brought unorthodox seals of approval plus clothes, paints, brushes and money in sums up to $100 from Midwestern women, "a little businessman," a WAC, soldiers, a 15-year-old boy and other admirers. He repeated his earlier refusal to take any regular job. "Why don't I do as other men, other writers? . . . Because I am different, for one thing. . . . This may seem like quite a tirade . . . yet if tomorrow, by a decision of the Supreme Court, [a] half-dozen terrifying words were restored to currency...