Some specific questions about the draft in WWII

[ram2]

In the late 1950s, you could still be drafted after you graduated from college. That is why some companies would not hire fresh college grads back then. They would run the risk of training somebody for a new job and them losing them to the military a year later.

[North Beach Person]

My father was born in 1919 and not drafted until 1943. He had been deferred as a farmer, I don't know what changed. He'd had some college courses, Ag Science, but was ineligible for OCS due to color blindness. At least that's what my mother told me but she sometimes would change stories or not give you the whole story if it suited her purposes.

[Just sayin'12644]

During WWII captured POW's were held in the U.S. and transported around the country by train. Good luck with your research.