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Show AMERICA I IN ACTION SEND MORE WACS ALLIED FORCE HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, NORTH AFRICA. "I've got just one thing to say about these women soldiers and that's give me more of them!" That's what Capt. Sol Gershon of the central postal directory in the North Africa theater of operations says about the Women's Army corps. "It is imperative that we do not lose' a soldier in the records." the captain explained. "We have a card for every soldier who enters 1 ' w Capt. Alcne Drezmal, left, checks on package distribution with Auxiliary Auxil-iary Hazel M. Belilove. this theater and that card must follow fol-low him. It's a herculean job that looks like it would take a whole field army to do. But we have got less than 100 WACs here. And they just won't go home at night until they're caught up with their work. And can they file cards! Why, the first day that new bunch filed 43,000 cards in one shift!" This is the section where mail is forwarded to wounded soldiers. If a soldier is wounded he is immediately immedi-ately evacuated to the rear. The medical soldiers who take him to the rear cannot possibly leave forwarding forward-ing addresses with men busy fighting. fight-ing. At the first hospital station the soldier is routed to the hospital established es-tablished to take care of his class of wound. Naturally, this soldier's mail is directed to his unit and when it arrives after he has been wounded and evacuated, it is turned over to his company officer. He immediately immediate-ly marks it "Hospital Unknown" and dispatches it to the Central postal directory. WACs take over at this point. Hospitals Hos-pitals are checked daily, cards are filed and cross-filed. They follow the wounded soldier via report and card file so that they know where he is almost as soon as he arrives there. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |