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Subject: [ROOTS-L] More questions about WW 2

Thanks to all who responded.  I have not found letters with any serial 
numbers so far, so maybe that was after the two enlistments I have (1940 
and 1942).

My husband was too young by a couple of years for WW2, but his memory 
about references to enlisted men was that the term in the army referred 
to the privates and corporals, rather than to those who enlisted vs 
those who were drafted.  Does that match anyone's memory?  (I was 
younger yet, and female, and not in contact with any Army types except 
my uncle, who was an unreliable source.)

       Elizabeth C