The United States in
War and Peace

A Regular Column by Shelby L. Stanton 
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September, 2009
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1944 WAC Enlistment Procedures Manual, Part 2
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This column features the front matter, contents and first three sections of the actual Army Service Forces Manual M-208, Procedures for Enlistment in the Women’s Army Corps, AUS, issued by the Headquarters of Army Service Forces on October 2, 1944. 

The section presented here is Section 3, Qualifying Enlistment Procedure. This section covers the oath of enlistment; rejected applicants; classification tests; index test; the enlistment record worksheet form No. 1 (WAC selection procedure); interview; investigations; physical examination and employment release. The rest of this vintage wartime manual will be presented in future columns.

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(Collection Shelby Stanton)
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WAC Enlistment Procedures Manual Section III, page 5 

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WAC Enlistment Procedures Manual Section III, page 6

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WAC Enlistment Procedures Manual Section III, page 7 

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WAC Enlistment Procedures Manual Section III, page 8 

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Note by Blitzkrieg Baby editor Katy Goebel: During the 1930s and 1940s medical science taught that venereal disease could likely lead to syphilis or severe dementia. According to popular sentiment, this process was uncertain in time and could be slow, these types of afflictions were bound to occur in the view of many medical practitioners. Moreover, venereal disease was also suspect in causing blindness among men.  Thus, venereal diseases were considered real threats to the safely and welfare of male fighting soldiers during World war II, and women were often blamed as carriers who could not be affected themselves.
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