What kind of information is found in WWI or WWII Draft cards?
O n May 18, 1917, the Selective Service Act was passed which allowed the President to temporarily increase the number of personnel in the military. The Selective Service System included 52 states (or territories) and 4,648 local boards. The organizations were responsible for registering men, classifying them, taking into consideration needs for manpower in certain industries and in agriculture, as well as certain special family situations of the registrants; handling any appeals of these classifications; determining the medical fitness of individual registrants; determining the order in which registrants would be called; calling registrants; and placing them on trains to training centers.
