From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jan 12 04:25:44 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0CBPiSK019695; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:25:44 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0CBPg0C015643 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:25:42 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0C8wnFI024704 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:58:49 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0C8wnss024703 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:58:49 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0C1JvFI023941 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:20:02 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0C3kbPX012252 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:46:37 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Roughwritr@aol.com Wed Jan 11 20:46:37 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0C3kbSK012241 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:46:37 -0700 Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (imo-d21.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.207]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0C3kXLw000613 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:46:34 -0700 Received: from Roughwritr@aol.com by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.1c4.3803b52e (3858) for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:46:24 -0500 (EST) From: Roughwritr@aol.com Message-ID: <1c4.3803b52e.30f72b10@aol.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:46:24 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5300 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #18 In a message dated 1/11/2006 7:06:53 P.M. Central Standard Time, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: X-Message: #21 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:55:43 -0500 From: Elizabeth Cunningham Subject: WW 2 The term "Enlisted Man" covers all grades from Private to Senior Master Sergeant. Officers begin with Second Lieutenant on up to the General grades. In World War II, Regular Army, National Guard and Drafted personnel were treated equally in an organization. Most of the Army Divisions over one hundred, were nationalized National Guard Divisions. The divisions were filled with replacements as the war went on. Toward war end most of the enlisted men were draftees and it was difficult to find an original national guard member. Officers were mostly OCS graduates, some Battlefield Commissions, our Regimental Commander was a 1927 graduate of the Military Academy, West Point. Army Serial Numbers started with 1 for regular army, 2 for national guard and 3 for draftees. Officers had an O prefix. The World War II military was segregated and combat divisions, infantry and artillery were Caucasian, Asian, Japanese American, Mexican/American and American Indian. The military services were integrated in 1947 and black men were eligible for those units. Regarding the Marine Corps and Navy physical and mental requirements were no different but those services were voluntary.