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Harrisburg Selective Service Department one [Selective Service Card]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09611.400.05 Author/Creator: Harrisburg Selective Service Department one Place Written: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Type: Postcard Date: 10 December 1942 Pagination: 2 p. ; Order a Copy

One postcard to Leonard Eugene Graeff from the Selective Service local board number one, Harrisburg city, dated December 10, 1942. A typed note indicates it’s an "old classification card to this office." It notes that Leonard’s number is 10,167, and he has been classified 2-B until June 9, 1943. This postcard was signed by Leonard Eugene Graeff. Enclosed with five other items in an envelope dated February 5, 1945. (GLC09611.400.01-.07)

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016

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