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[[order to report for induction]]
[[preprinted]]

App. not Req.
Prepare in Duplicate
[[boxed]] ^[[Local Board No. 1   51
Whitley County     183
[[pencil underlined]] JUN 20 1944 [[/pencil underlined]]   001
301 W. Van Buren Street
Columbia City, Indiana]]
[[/boxed]]
(Local Board Date Stamp With Code)

[[image: emblem of SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM]]
(Date of Mailing)^[[JUN 20 '44]]

ORDER TO [[pencil underlined]] REPORT FOR INDUCTION [/pencil underlined]]

[[and a note: between the above sentence and the following is cutout list of names]]

5. [] Rejected, physically fit but unacceptable for other reasons.

(Date of examination) ^[[MAR 14 1944]]
Name   Induction Station Commander  
       ^[[Chester A. Macomic]] ^[[I]]
Rank   ^]]CHESTER A. MACOMIC, CAPT, AUS]]
Station ^[[HDQ. 1583rd S.U. AFIS, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.]]
DSS Form 218
GPO 16-37983-1
[/order to report for induction]]
 
[[newspaper clipping fold-out]]
LARGEST GROUP GOES TODAY TO INDIANAPOLIS
[[underlined]] ^[[3/14/44]] [[/underlined]]
[[line]]
EIGHTY-SEVEN REGISTRANTS INCLUDE FATHERS AND HIGH SCHOOL BOYS-TAKES THREE BUSSES.
[[line]]
Numbering [[pencil underlined]] 87 [/pencil underlined]] the first March contingent of Whitley county registrants went to the Indianapolis armory for physical examination this morning, going in three busses. This is the largest group that has left at one time since induction service was institute.

Many were married men including pre-Pearl Harbor fathers, and some were high school students, who had reached the age of 18, when they must register. Those going today to Indianapolis were:

Donald E. Michael, R. 1, Claypool; Alfred N. Clark, Larwill; Donald E. Musselman, R. 3; Olin S. Kaufman, R. 5; Robert L. Schinbecker, Indianapolis; William P. Creech, R. 7; B. F. Berry, R. 5; P. Phil Pinckley, R. 4.
  
  Joseph Wm. Henderson, R. 1, Churubusco; Robert M. Sroufe, Larwill; [[pencil underlined]] Galen H. Wilkinson, [/pencil underlined]] R. 1, Larwill; William R. Sewell, Columbia City; [[pencil underlined]] Richard M. Day [/pencil underlined]], So. Whitley; [[pencil underlined]] Wm. Earl Jones, [/pencil underlined]] Columbia City; Harold L. Bennett, R. 3; Robert Dale McWhirter, R. 5, Ft. Wayne.
  [[pencil underlined]] Lee J. Plattner [/pencil underlined]], R. 6; C. Eugene Gregg, Columbia City; George W. Roberts, Columbia City; George Wm. Allman, Churubusco; Marshall C. Schinbeckler, Columbia City; Joseph R. Roe, Columbia City; Carl R. Sponseller, Roann; Carl E. Weigold, Columbia City.

Clifford M. Gibson, Columbia City; Joshua J. Bright, Ft. Wayne; Frank L. Karst, Columbia City; John N. Wigent, R. 7; Orville E. Sands, So. Whitley; Robert L. Erne, Columbia City.

  Ralph I. Loe, South Whitley; John E. Bricker, South Whitley; Carl M. Brown, Willard, O; Henry L. Karst, Columbia City; Clarence A. Platner, Columbia City; Amos J. Pulfer, Mansfield, O.; Firmer W. Burns, Ft. Wayne; Harmon P. Murbach, Columbia City.

  Harry L. Boyd, R. 5; James F. Parrett, Columbia City; Henry William Price, South Whitley, David T. Whalen, Fort Wayne, Jos. Edgar Lang, Churobusco;. Clay R. Gale, South Whitely; Benj. Paul Pequignot, R. 5, Fort Wayne; Elwood J. Bauder, Warsaw
^[[John Pence]]
  Ralph O. McKown, R. 6; Esta R. Keel, R. 1, Larwill; Samuel R. Schra [[abrupt end of column]]
[[/newspaper clipping]]

[[list of names]]
(S. O. No. 157) Par. 1 (Cont'd)
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53. Keith E. Terrill  35903971
54. Ralph Robertson  35903972
55. George Lycas  35903973
56. Floyd Q. Cain  35903974
57. Ralph Overmyer, Jr.  35903975
58. Lee J. Plattner  35903976 
[[left margin]] [[bracketing arrow]] ^[[ARMY]] [[bracketing arrow]] [[right margin arrow pointing to 58 Lee J. Plattner]] ^[[KIA 
    4/4/45]]
59. Richard M. Day   35903977
60. Galen H. Wilkinson  35903978
61. [[pencil underlined]] William E. Jones
35903979  [/pencil underlined]] 
62. Gerald N. Wilhems  35903980
63. Henry W. Ross  35903981
64. James C. Collins  35903982
[[left margin]] ^[[ARMY AIR CORPS]] [[/left margin]]

66. Wilks G. Sims  35903984
67. William S. Hendrickson, Jr.  35903985
68. Donald G. Busch  35903986
69. Gerlando P. Siracusa  35903987
70. Robert K. Atkinson  35903988
71. Richard J. Crady  35903989
72. Carl W. Frazier   35903990
73. Ralph L. Grace  35903991
74. Donald R. Bailey  35903992
75. James W. Scudder  35903993

[[and a note: 
The word ARMY is in left margin with inclusive arrows running from the name 
53. Keith E. Terrill to 58. Lee. J. Plattner, and a red number 58 is also in left margin.

The word ARMY AIR CORPS is in left margin with inclusive arrows running from 
59. Richard M. Day to 64. James C. Collins, and a red number 17 is also in left margin.
[[/and a note]]