"Col. Mary A. Hallaren, Director, WAC, arrives in Japan on a staff visit, 24 September 1947."

"As part of her effort to improve morale, Colonel Hallaren also re­sponded to a request from General MacArthur to conduct an inspection and staff visit to WAC units and personnel in Japan and China. That autumn, she visited the two WAC detachments that had been activated in Japan during 1946. In Yokohama, approximately 150 women of the 8000th WAC Battalion worked in the offices of Headquarters, Eighth Army, and lived in a quonset but compound. In Tokyo, over 400 enlisted women of the 8225th WAC Battalion worked in General Headquarters (GHQ), U.S. Army Forces, Far East (USAFFE), and lived in a down­town, multistory converted office building formerly occupied by the Mitsubishi Corporation. The WAC director also stopped at the headquarters of the China Theater in Shanghai to meet with the 25 enlisted women and 2 officers assigned there."

Morden, Bettie J. The history of the Women's Army Corps, 1945-78. 18 January 2006. Accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wac/.