WWII Selective Service

[13606Cedargrove]

This thread is very interesting to me. My Father, at age 30, volunteered for the Army on December 8, 1941 and was inducted at Fort Custer on March 17, 1942. After 3 years in the South Pacific, he entered the Reserves and retired in 1971.

[MikeM]

This thread is very interesting to me. My Father, at age 30, volunteered for the Army on December 8, 1941 and was inducted at Fort Custer on March 17, 1942. After 3 years in the South Pacific, he entered the Reserves and retired in 1971.

Reading articles from the time, it seems the number of volunteers from the area - even before Pearl Harbor - were sufficiently high that the draft quotas for Detroit were set relatively low.

First draftees from Detroit got inducted November 22, 1940: