World War II
WWII
Draft Registration Information
Induction Statistics for WWII
Total number of inductees for WWII (1940-1946)
including draftees before Pearl Harbor
10,110,114
By Year:
1940 -
18,633
1941
- 923,842
1942
- 3,033,361
1943
- 3,323,970
1944
- 1,591,942
1945 -
945,862
1946 -
183,383
WWII Draft Lists
First
Registration: 16 October 1940
For all men 21 to 36 years
of age.
Includes serial numbers
1 through 1000.
Final Listing of Draftees' Serial and Order
Numbers
The final first registration
draft list serial numbers 1131 to 3142.
Second
Registration: 1 July 1941
For all men who turned 21
since 16 October 1940.
Third Registration: 14-16 February 1942
For all men who were 20
before 31 December 1941
and not older than 45 by
16 February 1942.
Fourth Registration: 25-27 April 1942
For all men who turned 45
on or before 16 February 1942
and not older than 65 on
or before 27 April 1942.
Fifth Registration: 30 June 1942
For all men born after 1
January 1922 and before 30 June 1924.
Sixth
Registration: December 1942
For all men who turned 18
by 31 December 1942.
World
War II Service Men and Women
Women's Army Auxillary Corp (WAACS)
Women's Reserve of the United States Naval Reserve (WAVES)
Isabella
Draft Registrations Now Total 3,239
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, October 24, 1940
Third Member of Draft Board
Has Not Been Named
Five
More Enlist From Isabella
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, October 31, 1940
Three
Volunteers Make Up County's First Draft Quota
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, November 28, 1940
Also includes explanation
of the draft system and classification.
Local
Draft Quota Again Filled by Volunteers
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, January 2, 1941
Second Selective Service
quota numbering 18.
County's
February Draft Quota, 34; Will Leave 15th
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, January 31, 1941
Third Selective Service
quota for Isabella County is 34.
Twelve
Youths Make Up County's February Call
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, February 6, 1941
Twelve volunteers make up
part of the quota.
County's
Third Draft Call Group Leaves Wednesday
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, February 13, 1941
Many Volunteers Now Registering,
Anticipating March Service Entry.
Fourth
Draft Call Issued; 34 to Leave Here March 5th
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, February 20, 1941
Now Expected That Contingent
Will Include County's First Draftees.
16
Volunteer Selectees Ready For March Quota
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, February 27, 1941
Eight Mt. Pleasant Youths
in Group of Volunteers.
Draft
Replacements Leave for Training
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, March 20, 1941
County's
Largest Draft Group Will Leave Tuesday
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, March 27, 1941
Contingent Numbers 41. Six
Volunteers...Isabella's First Married Draftee Goes.
14
Volunteers in County's April Draft Contingent
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, April 3, 1941
May Call Likely To Be 25%
Smaller than April Quota
36
Men Given Notification For May Draft
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, April 24, 1941
Sixth Call Likely To Take
31 as Quota From Isabella Area
Forty
Isabellans Given 1-A Rating For May Draft
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, May 1, 1941
Induction Date Still In
Doubt...Total 1493 Questionnaires Mailed
City
and County Give Rousing Sendoff to Boys
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, June 12, 1941
Crowd of Two Thousand Cheers
Seventh Call Contingent Numbering 53
Older
Draft Registrants Are Deferred
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, July 3,1941
Seventeen Men Leave In July
Contingent...Given Rousing Send Off
Twenty-Five
Men To Go in Draft Call August 4
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, July 24, 1941
Lions to Give Farwell; 1447
Registrants Now Classified
Twenty-one
Men On Draft Call November 19
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, November 8, 1941
Examinations Due for 48
Isabellans By December 20
Eleven
Ready For Induction On December 10
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, November 27, 1941
Pre-Induction Medical Exam
for 29 Men Scheduled December 2
Isabella
Sends 42 More Men to Fort Custer
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, December 3, 1942
December Contingent Left
Tuesday to Enter Active Service
12
Men Leave for Fort Custer
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, December 10, 1942
Another Contingent
to Leave This Month
Isabella's
Second December Group to Camp Grant
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, December 31, 1942
Twenty-four Enlisted Reservists,
First Isabellans Sent to Illinois Center
Youths
Under 21 Make Up Most of '43's First Group
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, January 7, 1943
Contingent Numbering 21
Left Monday for Fort Custer
Twenty
Two Men Sent to Custer on Tuesday
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, January 28, 1943
Nine Others Inducted Directly
or Enter Service Through Other Boards
Isabella
Sends Largest Service Group of Year
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, February 25, 1943
Fifty-Seven Men and Youths
Leave for Army, Navy and Marine Corps Centers
Supply
of Single Men Exhausted, Says Draft Board
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, March 25, 1943
Week's Contingent of 35
Men Runs Out Last of Available Unmarried
Isabella
Sends 34 Men to Armed Forces This Week
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, April 8, 1943
23 Men Sent to Custer....
4 Join Naval Forces
7 Inducted Elsewhere
18
Men Inducted Into Services During Past Week
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, April 22, 1943
13 Quallify for Army, Four
for Navy and One for Marine Corps
Isabella
Sends 23 More Men to Armed Forces
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, May 6, 1943
Ten of Last April Group
Married....Three are Fathers
Isabella
Sends 14 More Youths to Armed Forces
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, May 27, 1943
Four Go to Navy...
Ten Men Qualify for Army
Isabella
County Honor Roll
from Mabel Wonch Eschenweck
Scrapbook
Isabella
Service Casualties of 1944
from the ISABELLA COUNTY
TIMES-NEWS, January 4, 1945
Includes biographical information
and service history
along with those listed
as Missing in Action and
Prisioners of War.
Back
Home Again
Isabella County Times-News,
Thursday, October 11, 1945
Complete list of Isabella
county men discharged from May 8, 1945
through October 1, 1945.
THEY
GAVE THEIR LIVES
from the ISABELLA COUNTY TIMES-NEWS
Thursday, May 30, 1946
Official
War Department List of WWII Casualties
from the ISABELLA COUNTY TIMES-NEWS
July 11, 1946
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