Army & Navy - August for Fathers

Major General Lewis B. Hershey took a deep breath and wrote it for the record: general induction of U.S. fathers will have to begin in August. Long expected, the announcement was forced last week by varied circumstances: draft quotas were running slightly behind schedule; the armed forces were still far short of their 11,000,000 goal; Congress was restively toying with bills to limit the draft.

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