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To: NorthMountain

No to your context, FDR had to go to a draft to fill the ground forces.

Enlistments weren’t cutting it.


22 posted on 09/02/2014 12:38:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

That doesn’t explain him cutting off enlistments entirely.

Near as I can tell, WWII was the only US war in which voluntary enlistments were cut off. Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, Korea, Viet Nam all accepted both draftees and volunteers for the duration of the war. At no time during these wars was voluntary enlistment cut off. Again, enlistment was CUT OFF in Dec 1942. My context (regarding WWII) is precisely correct. WWII was fought primarily under the unique circumstances of neither the War Department nor the Navy Department accepting voluntary enlistment.

Again, this does not apply to WWI and SGT York.


29 posted on 09/02/2014 12:47:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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