United States: Selective Service Medal 1941-1945

The silk corded riband fitted with a slot brooch mounting bar. The slot brooch retaining its original long hinged pin with intricate drop lock clasp fittings as issued

More than 100,000 personnel people served in the Selective Service System, most as volunteers. Selective Service personnel served on local draft boards, advisory boards, appeal boards, medical advisory and registrant advisory boards, and state boards. They served as directors, clerks, and examiners. They worked as government appeals agents, re-employment committeemen, examining physicians, dentists, medical field agents, social workers, and many other positions. By the end of the war, it was estimated that volunteers spent an average of ten hours a week fulfilling their Selective Service duties, often in the evenings and on weekends. Their contributions to the war effort were significant and public sentiment demanded national recognition. Their decisions sent their neighbors to war, interrupting and sometimes ending their lives. In June 1945, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1812 "to authorize an award of merit for uncompensated personnel of the Selective Service System." This resolution went to the Senate, was quickly passed, and became Public Law 112 (Chapter 219, 1st Session, 79th Congress) when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it on July 2, 1945

A fine contemporary matt finish example, of a medal that recognized the vitally important work performed by staff of the Selective Service System, without whom, the massive recruitment & mobilization work of the 'Draft' during the Second World War could not have been achieved in a timely & efficient manner

Condition: EF

Code: 23670