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64possible supply of reinforcements from colonies, or not as the case may be, caused some strife, and became a source of political leverage. Nevertheless, these contentious issues were gradually resolved and by 1941 the Western European Allies had established a broadly workable, if not exactly smooth, relationship. In the middle of 1941 the DAAC became the Directorate of Allied Air Co8Operation and Foreign Liaison (DAFL).16 It would continue to grow (see Figure 3), liaison with Yugoslavia, Greece and the Soviet Union being included in 1941 and from 1943 foreign sections of the WAAF (or Corps Feminin as it was known to the French) began to be established. By 1944 the DAFL was the official body controlling, not only liaison with and between the Allied Air Forces, but also overseeing their training, equipment and administration. They also supervised British Air Attach%u00e9s to foreign nations, and foreign Air Attach%u00e9s in the UK.17 The numbers of Allied personnel had grown from just over 10,000 in the summer of 1940, to nearly 30,000 and some 57 squadrons in 1944.18 Since the DAFL had only around fifty staff,19 it is little Fig 3. Directorate of Allied Air Co?Operation and Foreign Liaison, 1944.