U.S. NAVY RECRUITS
FALL AFTER SINKINGS MEN MAY BE DRAFTED (Reed. Nov. 28, 11 a.m.) v NEW YORK, Nov. 26. Survivors says that most of the men who lost their lives when the United States destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed were killed by the destroyer’s own depth charges. The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, announced that since the torpedoing of the Kearney and Reuben James, with the loss of 112 lives, the navy enlistments had declined 15 per cent. The enlistments now showed a tendency to return to the old level of 10,000 to 11,000 monthly which was 2000 or 3000 short of the navy’s requirements. The decline had been among minors and was probably due to parents withholding their consent. The navy might eventually have to use selectees to man the expanding fleet.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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