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From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net>
To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com, "Dereck L. Dietz" <dietzdl@ameritech.net>
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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Navy SeaBees
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This is an interesting website about Navy SeaBees......

http://www.seabeecook.com/seabees/index.htm

This website - http://www.seabeecook.com/history/seabees_in_ww2.htm
says the average age of a SeaBee in WW II was 34 yrs.   I don't think 
any of the men were drafted.

juanita


> The Navy had SeaBees that old.  The standard joke in the Navy at that
> time was to be nice to a SeaBee - he could be your grandfather.
> 
> > X-Message: #11
> > Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:42:00 EDT
> > From: MaeMay510@aol.com
> > Subject: Military question
> >
> > While checking some military records, I found where a cuzzie had a
> > WWI
> draft
> > registration and a WWII enlistment in 1942.
> > Same man, same birth date.
> > He was born in 1890.
> > So, you military experts, did our country enlist men in their 50's
> > during the opening days of WWII?