I hope you don't mind if I butt in but there are a few other things considered with
the WWII draft. My father was a small man but was tagged as a belly gunner as a last
resort. Fortunately for me (I was still a twinkle in his eye.) he was an engineer. They
drafted him but put him on a drawing board engineering parts for aircraft. There were
other jobs critical to the war where they were actually used but not inducted into the
military. Maybe a company he was working for was already on contract to the government or
perhaps one of the industries that were supplying rations, clothing or arms to our men.
There were also industries critical to keeping the country going on a civilian level that
might have kept him out.
Daddy DID finally get orders as a belly gunner and a few days later the big bomb was
dropped on Hiroshima. I don't know if this helps you any but maybe it will trigger a
bit of knowledge about your Dad that you hadn't thought of.
Shirley
----- Original Message -----
From: Connie Brubaker
To: inwells(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [INWELLS] Military Question
Great to hear from you...my dad was born in 1909. Which made him about 32 I
want to know why he wasn't taken. He wasn't a sick man, no religious
beliefs, job not vital to the effort, and to the best of my knowledge he was
not disabled.
Connie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobbi Chapman" <bochap(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: <inwells(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [INWELLS] Military Question
Connie,
A quick and incomplete check around the internet found a source that said
that after Pearl Harbor Congress extended the draft to men 18-38 years of
age, and at one point to men aged 18-45.
The fourth registration for the draft was called "The Old Men's Draft,"
and applied to men born between 28 April 1877 and 16 Feb. 1897.
My Dad was drafted in 1942 at the age of 35.
At different times, there have been different reasons for not being
drafted. Some of these reasons include illness, disability, religious
beliefs, being employed in a capacity that was crucial to the war effort.
In 1942, my Dad and other Grant Co., IN, men were sent to Indianapolis for
their Army physicals. One man in this group was measured at a height of 6
feet 6 3/4 inches. He was rejected for military service for being too
tall. In the mid-1960's my younger brother, at his physical, was found to
have slightly elevated blood pressure in one arm and was rejected. My
older brother and my future husband were ineligible for the draft because
they were both teaching.
Bobbi
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