The Pittsburgh Press (February 4, 1944)
Army commanders want more WACs
Washington (UP) –
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, Women’s Army Corps director, says that “every commanding officer of every installation” she visited in England, North Africa, and Italy requested more WACs.
Col. Hobby and Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, senior air WAC officer, recently returned from an inspection of WAC overseas installations.
Col. Hobby predicted that WACs might follow invading armies once the lines and field headquarters are established, as they have in Italy. Of the approximately 3,000 WACs serving overseas, 350 are in Italy and about 2,000 in Africa, she said.
Even the sight of horrifying destruction in Italy failed to swerve the WACs from their duty, she said.
She said:
I didn’t see a WAC who wanted to come home.