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From: Judie Cook <>
Subject: Re: [NORCAL] WWII Question
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:32:18 -0400
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Does this mean you've been chopping off two years ever since??? :)))

J
On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Bill wrote:

> I joined the National Guard in San Francisco in 1938. I was 16. You
> got a
> $1.00 a week for training and that was big money to me. The first
> doctor
> that examined me doubted I was 18 and flunked me.
> The enlisting sergeant told me to come back next week when their was
> an
> easier doctor. That one passed me
> In September, 1940, President Roosevelt nationalized the guard into
> the Army
> and naive me asked the sergeant, "Does that mean me?"
> "Hell yes, Roddy!"
> I was in the Army.
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:norcal-
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> Behalf Of
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 4:28 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [NORCAL] WWII Question
>
> Don't discount the lying technic that occurred during WWII as many
> "younger
> than they really were boys/men" were inducted into the armed forces
> and
> sent to war.
>
> My father was one of them, he was only 17 when he enlisted into the
> Navy
> and saw much action starting off with Pearl Harbor on December 7. He
> told
> them he was 18.
>
> So keep looking even though you think he may have been to young.
>
>
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