AMERICA'S WAR STRENGTH
OLDER MEN TO BE ENLISTED WAR WORKERS TO BE CALLED LAST (Rec. 9.55 a.m.) New York, Aug. 28. The “Wail Street Journal’s” Washing. lon correspondent says the projected Army and Navy combat strength in 1944 exceeds the estimated number of men aged 18 to 45, physically fit to fight hence Mr Stimson’s decision to enlist older men. The proposed Army and Navy strength, necessarily a secret, has been boosted higher than any figure yet published. The United States replaces Russia as the anti-Axis recruiting station. Job and dependency deferments will disappear. By 1944 fitness will be almost the only test. The order of induction is, firstly, remaining single men; secondly, married men with no children, and thirdly, married men with one child. Within each group war workers will be called last. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 August 1942, Page 5
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