WAC 3rd Anniversary

Skilled WAC hands work side by side with Army doctors. They are part of the team that, day by day, is doing the vital job of reconditioning wounded men.

Constant vigilance is a requirement of teletype operators, particularly in a theater of operations where these WACs release soldiers for combat duty.

To speed up the training of pilots, WACs are assigned to Link Trainer work and other duties in the Army Air Forces at home and overseas.

Directional bearings, dispatched by WACs, save the lives of American airmen. Bringing aircraft back to its home base by the shortest route is another WAC assignment.

Here is the first contingent of Fifth Army WACs debarking from an LST at the Anzio Sector in Italy last July.

A WAC detachment, arriving at an airstrip in the Philippines, is greeted by a young Filipino girl.

Some of the first WACs on duty in the Middle East handled communications for the historic Cairo Conference. Others were assigned to secretarial and clerical duties.