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2025-01-02
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Double Victory

Summary:

During WWII, African Americans would make monumental contributions to the US by supplying them with military service and wartime support in exchange for social progress: a movement that would be coined by historians as “Double Victory”.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Chapter 1: A Dead Man

Chapter Text

 

November 5, 1940

(Date of mailing)

Prepare in Duplicate

 

 

Order to Report for Induction

The President of the United States,

To Samuel Thomas Wilson,

Order No. 10498

GREETING:

Having submitted yourself to a local board composed of your neighbors for the purpose of determining your availability for training and service in the armed forces of the United States, you are hereby notified that you have now been selected for training and service in the Army.

You will, therefore, report to the local board named above at Court House, Manhattan, New York at 10:30 p.m., on the 6th day of January 15, 1941.

This local board will furnish transportation to an induction station of the service for which you have been selected. You will there be examined, and, if accepted for training for service, you will then me inducted into the stated branch of service.

Persons reporting to the induction station in some instanced many be rejected for physical or other reasons. It is well to keep thins in mind arranging your affairs, to prevent any undue hardship if you are rejected at the induction station. If you are employed, you should advise your employer of this notice and of the possibility that you may not be accepted at the induction service. Your employer can then be prepared to replace you if you are accepted, or to continue your employment if you are rejected.

Willful failure to report promptly to this local board at the hour and on the day named in this notice is a violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and subjects the violator to fine and imprisonment. Bring with you sufficient clothing for 3 days.

You must keep these forms and bring it with you when you report to the local board.

I'd you are so far removed from your own local board reporting with this order will be a serious hardship and you desire to report to a local board in the area in which your now located, go immediately to that local board and make written request for transfer of your delivery for induction, taking this order with you.

(Signed in Cursive:)   John Erthenal
Member of clerk of the local board.

Notes:

I shouldn’t be working on another fic, but here I am. This idea was too good to pass though.

Also, I really need an editor. Specifically someone who either has intimate knowledge of African-American culture and history or has done thorough studies in it. This fic will be touching upon some very sensitive and heavy themes that should not be, under any circumstance, inaccurate. But I also don’t mind someone who would edit my grammar and bounce ideas off of.

Lastly, this is a repost of the same fic with the same name. I mistakenly orphaned it thinking it was the same as being able to post and write it anonymously. So here we go again.

Thanks 😊