Dad was an Army Air Corps Armourer,...that is he loaded and fused bombs onto bombers,...after he passed we found a letter signed by Curtis Lemay commending him for "an incidence of significance"...This was a total suprise, He Never mentioned it once...The letter also talked about how he loaded and fused the incendiaries used for the Dresden firestorms.
He went to WWII much older than the others,...in his thirties...He probably would not have been called up in the draft. He said he did it because of Franklin Roosevelt...we have no idea today just how popular Roosevelt and his policies were then.