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America Picks an Army

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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The story of how a typical young American becomes a soldier.

Recorded programme produced for the BBC in New York by Roy Lockwood

Listeners will hear the actual broadcast of the Draft Lottery Ceremony as it was heard in the U.S.A. on October 29, 1940, when President Roosevelt announced the first number. Men in charge of Selective Service, New York, explain how it works. The programme also includes a relay from Grand Central Palace the vast Induction Centre in New York, where thousands of men are admitted daily into the Armed Services.

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Producer:
Roy Lockwood
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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