{"id":1921,"date":"2007-11-12T00:17:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/world-war-ii-draft-registration-card-for-michael-danko\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T00:17:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T07:17:19","slug":"world-war-ii-draft-registration-card-for-michael-danko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1921","title":{"rendered":"World War II Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather, Michael Danko, registered for the World War II draft in the fourth registration conducted in 1942.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth\u00c2\u00a0registration, also\u00c2\u00a0known as the old man&#8217;s registration, was officially conducted on 27 April 1942 .\u00a0All men born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897\u00c2\u00a0(between 45 and 64 years old) were required to register.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"World War II Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko of Worcester Massachusetts - Front\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/WWII-Danko-Michael-F.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1923\" style=\"width: 471px; height: 317px\" height=\"317\" alt=\"World War II Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko of Worcester Massachusetts - Front\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/WWII-Danko-Michael-F.jpg\" width=\"471\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>WWII Draft Registration Card\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Michael Danko &#8211; Front<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"World War II Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko of Worcester Massachusetts - Back\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/WWII-Danko-Michael-B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1922\" style=\"width: 312px; height: 472px\" height=\"472\" alt=\"World War II Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko of Worcester Massachusetts - Back\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/WWII-Danko-Michael-B.jpg\" width=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>WWII Draft Registration Card\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Michael Danko &#8211; Back<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">SOURCE: &#8220;U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,\u201d digital images, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 11 November 2007), Michael Danko, serial no. U3085, order no. not stated, Draft Board 166, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; citing Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration, NARA microfilm publication M2090, roll 36.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a <a id=\"p1924\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/WWII%20Danko%20Michael.pdf\">PDF<\/a> copy of the World War II Draft Registration Card for Michael Danko. This card provides the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Michael Danko of 15 Henchman St. Worcester, Worcester, Mass. was registered on 26 April 1942 by Ellen M. Gilligan, Registrar for Local Board #166 Worcester, Mass.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His Serial Number was U3085; no Order Number was provided<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His mailing address was the same as his place of residence<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He had no telephone<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He was 64 yrs old and was born on 22 Sept. 1877<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He was born in Nienadrwa (sic) Poland<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">The person who would always know is address was Mrs Mary Danko, 15 Henchman St. Worcester, Mass.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He was unemployed<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He was of the White Race; he was 5 ft 8&#8243; tall and 140&#8242;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He had Blue Eyes, Brown Hair, and Light Complexion<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">He wore glasses<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Although the registration was officially conducted on 27 April 1942, my grandfather registered on the 26th of April. His place of birth is listed as Nienadrwa, Poland. The name of the village is misspelled and the name of the country where he was born is technically incorrect. The correct spelling of the village is Nienadowa .\u00a0Grandfather was born in 1877 in\u00c2\u00a0Galicia (Austria) which, in 1942, was indeed Poland.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">My grandfather did not serve in World War II, but three of his four sons did. His son Michael Jr. served as a Shipfitter\u00c2\u00a0First Class\u00c2\u00a0in the US Navy, his son Joseph\u00c2\u00a0served as\u00c2\u00a0a Sergeant in the US Army, and his son Francis served as a Seaman First Class in the US Naval Armed Guard. All three sons survived the war.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather, Michael Danko, registered for the World War II draft in the fourth registration conducted in 1942. The fourth\u00c2\u00a0registration, also\u00c2\u00a0known as the old man&#8217;s registration, was officially conducted on 27 April 1942 .\u00a0All men born on or between 28 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-danko"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-uZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}