First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights leader Dr. New WAC recruits underwent four to six weeks of basic training, which included a physical training program, often followed by four to twelve weeks of specialist training. The WAC was converted from the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps which had been created in 1942 but did not have official military status. Army was created by a law signed by President Franklin D. The Postal Division continually sought to secure additional officers by requisition from the Reinforcement System and from the Zone of the Interior.” Although there were personnel stationed at Birmingham to handle the mail, the system was in chaos. But who would take on this massive task? Under the heading of “Personnel problems,” an Adjutant General’s report stated that, “Since D-Day, and for a long time prior to that date, a shortage of qualified postal officers has existed within the theater.
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