My mother in law was a pbx operator in Headquarters, 8th and 9th Army Air Corp when it was moved from Bushy Park, England to St. Germaine, France about a month after D-Day. She said when intelligence got wind of all the German movements, they started issuing rifles to every one, including the cooks and the clerks. She told them she was from Texas and could shoot a rifle if they'd give her one, but USSTAF flew her and the other women in the outfit back to England until the Bulge was over, them flew them back into France. I asked her if she ever saw any of those famous generals like Gen. Spaatz and she said she knew and talked to them every day. Asked her what her clearance was and she said " It was a little above Top Secret ". She was kind of tight lipped about her service, as she never told my wife or her son very much about what she did over there. I, fortunately, managed to get her talking about her experiences after a while.
