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From: Marsha Ensminger <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: WW2 Draft Registration
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:46:31 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <3de.4059947.31b189c6@aol.com>


This is Ancestry's explanation of their draft card index:

"The U.S. officially entered World War II on 8 December 1941 following
an attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Just about a year before that, in
October 1940, President Roosevelt had signed into law the first
peacetime selective service draft in U.S. history, due to rising world
conflicts. After the U.S. entered WWII a new selective service act
required that all men between ages 18 and 65 register for the draft.
Between November 1940 and October 1946, over 10 million American men
were registered.

This database is an indexed collection of the draft cards from the
Fourth Registration, the only registration currently available to the
public. The Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's
registration", was conducted on 27 April 1942 and registered men who
were born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 - men who
were between 45 and 64 years old - and who were not already in the
military."

--- wrote:

> I ran across a draft registration for WW2, dated 1942, in which the
> registree was 58 years old. Since I registered for the WW2 draft
> myself, one might
> think I would know the age limits for registration. Since I was only
> 18 at the
> time perhaps I can be forgiven. Anybody happen to know what the
> limits were.
> 58 seems a bit old; I am sure he was never called for service at that
> age.
> Just curious- Dale
>
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