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Preparing for Global War

Selective service, or the draft, used a lottery to call up men for military duty.

Selective service, or the draft, used a lottery to call up men for military duty.

 

Selective service, or the draft, used a lottery to call up men for military duty. Here, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches Navy Secretary Frank Knox draw a number.

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