How many, or what percentage of eligible inductees were excused by way of a 2-D or 4-D during WWII?
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2Are you talking about the draft classifications that are listed as "deferred"? There are actually rather a lot of them, but there was no "II-D" among them.– T.E.D. ♦Commented Dec 27, 2017 at 4:16
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@T.E.D. I would guess the OP misapplied the post 1948 classes, which does have 2-D and 4-D for these types of deferments. There's a IV-D deferment for ministers and divinity students in WW2 though.– SemaphoreCommented Dec 27, 2017 at 8:07
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Somewhere, I found those designations—maybe from Korea or Viet Nam?—that indicated being in college (II-S) or seminary (II-D) and IV-D, for actual ministers. I guess the latter belongs in Classification V, according to this. What I need to know is how many of these not-enlisted people there were during WWII (or during the selective service period from 1940-'48). Thank you for this, though.– winonawwCommented Dec 28, 2017 at 5:28
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Well, to give one example, one of my grandfathers got deferred due to being employed in a vital wartime industry (the oil industry). That's a deferral, but not one of those two classes you are asking about. So are you interested in all deferrals, or just certain types of them.?– T.E.D. ♦Commented Dec 28, 2017 at 6:43
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25 MILITARY CLASSIFICATIONS For Draftees for WW2 through 1947.
used by Selective Service.
Five major catagories.
I - Liable to military service in the order determined by the national drawing
II - Temporary (dependency) discharge from draft; effective until Class I in the jurisdiction of the same Local Board was exhausted; registrants with both wife & children, or any father of motherless children, where such wife & children were not mainly dependent upon the registrant’s labor for support; also, registrants whose wives could support themselves through employment
III - Temporary (dependency) discharge from draft; effective until Classes I & II in the jurisdiction of the same Local Board was exhausted; registrants who were responsible forchildren not their own & who were dependent on registrant’s labor for support; registrants who had aged, inform or invalid parents or grandparents mainly dependent on registrants' government employees
IV - Temporary (dependency) discharge from draft; effective until Classes I, II & III in the jurisdiction of the same Local Board was exhausted; any married registrant whose wife or children were mainly dependent on registrant’s labor for support; also included mariners employed in sea service
V - Exemption or discharge from draft; including:
- ordained ministers
- students who on May 18, 1917 had been prepared for ministry in a recognized theological or divinity school
- persons in the military or naval service of the United States (officers & enlisted men)
- alien enemies - resident aliens
- persons found to be totally & permanently physically or mentally unfit for military service
- persons show to have been convicted of any crime designated as treason or felony, or an “infamous” crime
- licensed pilots actually employed in the pursuit of his vocation
You can get copies of the Selective Service Records from the national archives here.
Number of Inductions: 10,110,104
By year.
1040..............18,633.
1941.............923,842.
1942...........3,033,361.
1943...........3,323,970.
1944...........1,591,942.
1945.............945,862.
1946.............183,383.
1947...................0.
below taken from wikipedia's US conscription article
- 72,000 men registered as CO (conscientious objectors)
52,000 of those received CO status
25,000 of those entered the military in non combat roles.
- 12,000 went to civilian work camps
- 6,000 went to prison.
Draft evasion accounted for 4% of the total draftees.
- 373,000 evaders were investigated
- 16,000 were imprisoned.
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This is getting close to what I need—thank you. I guess I can go to the national archives for what I'm looking for. I need the number of IV-D and II-D exemptions (I guess "deferment" was the wrong term).– winonawwCommented Dec 28, 2017 at 5:15
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@winonaww - Which again will be quite difficult, as there was no such thing as II-D during WWII– T.E.D. ♦Commented Dec 28, 2017 at 19:08