Women for the Services
AIRWACS ARE NEEDED
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Women of Iowa between the ages of twenty and fifty who have no dependents under fourteen years of age may enlist in the Womens Army Corps in the Army Ground Forces, and Army Air Forces.
The Air Transport Command is a part of the Army Air Forces, it operates the Army's greatest air routes all over the world and is charged with flying important cargo, ferrying all types of planes and carrying passengers, mail and other items. Like all other branches of the Army, the air transport command needs more women. The Air Transport Command alone needs 5,000 women.
Trained women have jobs waiting for them in the ATC. Most of these are office positions, clerks, typists, stenographers, telephone operators, link trainer instructors, cryptographers, operations clerks, and other posts.
The ATC operates airlines all over the world, in the U.S., in Central and South America, in the Pacific, in Africa, in the United Kingdom, in Alaska, in Central and North Africa, in India and everywhere that transport planes and ferrying routes operate. The ATC uses WACS on bases from Maine to California, from Montana and Michigan to Florida and Texas. Recently a company of WACS went to the Pacific area to serve with the ATC in Hawaii and elsewhere. The air transport command uses WACS at its bases all over the world. Women who want to serve with an interesting part of the AAF will find what they w{ant in the ATC. ^^^^^^^
The method of applying for service in the Air Transport is simple. Step by step the plan is this:
1. Enlist in the Women's Army Corps as an Air Wac.
2. With the required mental score and qualifications you will have choice of station for your first assignment. Just state that you would like to serve at Rose-crans Field, St. Joseph, Mo.
3. You are then automatically assigned to the Air Transport Comand.
4. When you have finished your basic training, you will be sent to the first operational training unit,
[tig Division, Air Transport Command, Rosecrans Field, where the job will be waiting for you.
Women serving with the ATC also have an equal chance to serve in the ATC overseas.
In addition to the Air Transport Command, WACS are needed as Physical Therapists, and in the Signal Corps as , Tabulating Machine Operators, Key Punch Operators. and Cryptographic Clerks. These are just a few of the many opportunities open to women in the WAC.
Cpl. Mary Keenan of the Army Recruiting Office in Dubuque will be available at the American Legion Hall in the Municipal building in Guttenberg on April 29, from 2 till 4 p.m. to talk to any women who might be interested in the Women's Army Corps. Literature may be obtained without obligation. Information may also be obtained by writing the Army, 1 :¦ . ¦ ¦::-'.!; New K.O.
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