WOMEN: The Old Nine
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Anna Walker Wilson, whose hair is prematurely white, was the first WAC to arrive in the European Theater of Operations. Two G.I.s spotted her, charged up, howling "WACs ! " — then gulped abashedly when they saw her rank. Colonel Wilson laughed them off, told them that a lot of G.I. Janes were on the way. Staff director in the ETO, 34-year-old "Tony" Wilson now has under her wing 6,500 WACs in the United Kingdom, hundreds of WACs sleeping in tents in Normandy.
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