Detroit Fire History: Draft Registration at Fire Headquarters

Today in Detroit Fire History - February 13, 1942

On This Day, February 13, 1942, more than 500 firemen participated in an early registered for the draft at Fire Department Headquarters.  

Compulsory draft registration was scheduled for February 16th, so this early registration was scheduled to accommodate firefighters who would be on duty that day.

Early registration was also done for auto workers at Ford, Chrysler, Murray Corp. of America, Briggs Manufacturing and Hudson Motor Car Company. 

This picture above shows a copy of one Detroit Firefighter’s draft registration card. The card contains some hand written and some typed information. The typing was likely done to help speed up the early registration process as the typed info would have applied to every Detroit firefighter who registered that day.  

Detroit fireman Emil C. Doll circa. 1935

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