{"id":6061,"date":"2017-06-07T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2021-04-28T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:52:09","slug":"world-war-ii-selective-service-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/world-war-ii-selective-service-act\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II \u2013 Selective Service Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5141 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-2-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-2-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-2-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-2.jpg 864w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/252;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Gallo welcomed several sons home to Brooklyn after serving in World War II.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the U.S. entered WWII a new selective service act required that all men between ages 18 and 65 register for the draft. Between November 1940 and October 1946, over 10 million American men were registered.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5151\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5151\" class=\"wp-image-5151 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/WWII-Return-Gallo-Family.jpg 614w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 213px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 213\/300;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Mitchell (left) with brothers-in-law Pete and Sal Gallo.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the U.S. entered WWII a new selective service act required that all men between ages 18 and 65 register for the draft. Between November 1940 and October 1946, over 10 million American men were registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crachesi-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}