WWII draft registration information

Note: Be careful for those who died in 1941.  Many who later qualified for the young men draft were not eligible for the original 1940 draft.  For example, someone born in 1902 was not eligible for the draft until Feb 1942.  So if he died in 1941, he should be marked D, not NF. 

 

REGISTRATION NAME	DATE of REGISTRATION	FOR THESE MEN (not already in military)	BORN	HAS OCCUPATION AS A FIELD	Ht/Weight FIELD
First Registration	Oct 16, 1940	Men between the ages of 21 and 36	10/16/1904 -  10/16/1919	N	Y
Second Registration	Jul 1, 1941	Men who reached 21 since the first draft of Oct 16, 1940	10/17/1919- 7/12/1920	Y	Y
Third Registration	Feb 16, 1942	Men 20 -21 and 35-44. [Men aged 22-35 had already registered previously]	2/17/1897-12/31/1921	N	Y
Fourth Registration (Old Man’s Draft)	Apr 27, 1942	Men 45 -64 years old	4/28/1877- 2/16/1897	N	Y
Fifth Registration	Jun 30, 1942	Men 18-20	1/1/1922- 6/30/1924	N	Y
Sixth Registration	Dec 10-31, 1942	Men who reached 18 after Fifth Registration (6/30/1942)	7/1/1924 – 12/31/1924	N	Y
Sixth Continued?	Continuous thru 1947	Not sure of official name but people continued to have draft cards thru 1947 born up thru 1929	1/1/1925-1929	N	Y

Note: There is some overlap for people born in 1897 and 1898, and some men who should have old man’s draft cards are found on young men’s draft cards.

 

YOUNG MAN’S DRAFT 1940-1947

STATES AVAILABLE:   All states, except Maine, are available on the Ancestry database.  Records from Maine were destroyed and were never digitized. 

OLD MAN’S DRAFT 1942:

STATES AVAILABLE: The following states do not have draft cards in the Ancestry database as the cards were destroyed without ever being microfilmed:

·         Alabama

·         Florida

·         Georgia

·         Maine

·         Mississippi

·         New Mexico

·         North Carolina

·         South Carolina

·         Tennessee

 

PROMBLEM WITH IMAGES:  Images from DE, MD, PA, and WV were microfilmed incorrectly at NARA.  Front and back sides are photographed together in one image but are not for the same person. The back side of the card for Person A is in the next image at the bottom for Person B.