He was drafted in November 1942 without volunteering, while his son had volunteered for the Marine Corps at seventeen right after Pearl Harbor and served at Guadalcanal, and his baby daughter, born that June, was only months old.
Date (happened)
1942
certain
- 1942
- 1942
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- c. 1971
Sources
Source
- I Am the True Vine ¶44 (I was drafted in nineteen forty-two — I didn’t volunteer. My son volunteered, at the age of seventeen, in the Marine Corps, right after Pearl Harbor, and he was in Guadalcanal.)
- Goddards Military Records (Neville says his seventeen-year-old son volunteered for the Marines after Pearl Harbor and was in Guadalcanal.)