Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey calling the first 15
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey calling the first 15 numbers called in draft lottery. The World War II era draft began on Oct. 29, 1940, over a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. (CSU_2015_9_953)
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11061031
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45276861
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3000px x 2345px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
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