As of 11/04/2003

Series 1881: National Selective Service System Publications. 1940-1973.
U. S. Military Records (RG 58).

       Various publications of the National Selective Service System office that were disseminated to the state Selective Service System offices. These publications range from the regulations, reports, procedures, and forms used by Selective Service boards to a multi-volume history of World War II Selective Service. The Special Monographs not only function as a detailed after action report of World War II Selective Service operations, but include a study of the history of compulsory service in the thirteen original colonies. There are also reports from several states of the functioning of their state Selective Service System offices. This collection consists of hard and soft cover publications arranged numerically or alphabetically within the respective boxes.

Activity and Occupational Bulletins #1-35: 19439972

Analysis of Selective Service System in Massachusetts: 194710019

Code of FederalRegulations, #32, National Defense: 197310053

Historical Report on the ... Selective Service System in Illinois: 194010018

History of Furnishing Statement of Service Cards to the States: 1792-1948 9992

Index to Selective Service Law, Regulations, & Forms: 194010053

List of Local Boards (Names, Addresses): 19439979

Local Board Differences in Proportion of White Registrants: 19459979

Local Board Memoranda: 1941-19459972
Local Board Memoranda: 1945-19479972

Medical Statistics Bulletin #1: 19419992
Medical Statistics Bulletin #2:19439992
Medical Statistics Bulletin #3:19449992
Medical Statistics Bulletin #4:19469992

Memoranda to All State Directors: 1940-19439971

National Headquarters Opinions, Vol. 3, #1-27: 1941-19439992

Occupational Bulletins #1-44: 19429972

Office of Selective Service Records Regulations: 1947-194810058

Office of Selective Service Records Regulations: 1947-1948 (looseleaf)10054

Office of Selective Service Records, Training Program: 194710053

Outline of Historical Background of Selective Service: 194810053
Outline of Historical Background of Selective Service: 1952(rev)10053
Outline of Historical Background of Selective Service: 1960(rev)10053
Outline of Historical Background of Selective Service: 1965(rev)10053

Report of Director, Office of Selective Service Records: 1947-194810038

Report of Selective Service in Kentucky: 196310018

Report on Task Force on Structure of Selective Service: Oct 19679992

Selective Service Circular 2, Manual of Law: 1940 (1st Ed.)10053
Selective Service Circular 2, Manual of Law: 1942 (2d Ed.)10053

Selective Service Forms (looseleaf notebook)10063

Selective Service Primer, 2d Ed. (Illinois): 195410018

Selective Service Regulations (vols. 1-6): 1940-194110053
Selective Service Regulations 1st Ed.: 1940-194210052
Selective Service Regulations 2nd Ed.(1st Printing): 1942-194310052
Selective Service Regulations 2nd Ed.(2nd Printing): 1943-194510058
Selective Service Regulations 2nd Ed.(3rd Printing): 1945-19470058

Selective Service System Manual for Medical Advisors: 194810053

Selective Service System Manual of Information for Local Board Clerks: 1953-195610053

Selective Service System Reports:
      Selective Service in Peacetime (1st Report): 1940-19419995
      Selective Service in Wartime (2nd Report): 1941-19429995
      Selective Service as the Tide of War Turns (3rd Report): 1943-19449995
      Selective Service and Victory (4th Report): 1944-194710038

Selective Service in Florida: 1940-197310019

Selective Service in Illinois: 1940-194710018

Selective Service in North Carolina: 194910019

Selective Service in South Carolina: 194810019

Selective Service under the 1948 Act: 1948-19500038

Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended10063

Special Monograph #1: Backgrounds of Selective Service, Vol. 2; titled Military Obligation:
    The American Tradition: 1607-1789
      Part 1: General Information9990
      Part 2: Connecticut Enactments9990
      Part 3: Delaware Enactments9990
      Part 4: Georgia Enactments9990
      Part 5: Maryland Enactments9990
      Part 6: Massachusetts Enactments9990
      Part 7: New Hampshire Enactments9991
      Part 8: New Jersey Enactments9991
      Part 9: New York Enactments9991
      Part 10: North Carolina Enactments9991
      Part 11: Pennsylvania Enactments9991
      Part 12: Rhode Island Enactments9991
      Part 13: South Carolina Enactments9992
      Part 14: Virginia Enactments9992

Special Monograph #2: Selective Service Act (text and appendices A-B)10066
Special Monograph #2: Selective Service Act (appendices B-F)10070

Special Monograph #3: Organization & Administration of the System10070

Special Monograph #4: Registration and Selective Service10076

Special Monograph #5: The Classification Process10076

Special Monograph #6: Industrial Deferment10080

Special Monograph #7: Agricultural Deferment4724

Special Monograph #8: Depending Deferment4724

Special Monograph #9: Age in the Selective Service Process4724

Special Monograph #10: Special Groups (app A-G)10090

Special Monograph #11: Conscientious Objection10090

Special Monograph #12: Quotas, Calls, and Induction (text, appendices A-E)10090
Special Monograph #12: Quotas, Calls, and Induction (appendices F-H)10094

Special Monograph #13: Reemployment and Selective Service10094

Special Monograph #14: Enforcement of the Selective Service Law10094

Special Monograph #15: Physical Examination of Selective Service Registrants10098

Special Monograph #16: Problems of Selective Service9988

Special Monograph #17: The Operation of Selective Service (text, appendices A &B)9988
Special Monograph #17: The Operation of Selective Serivce (appendices C-I)10101

Special Monograph #18: Evaluation of the Selective Service Program10101

State Director Advices: 1942-19459971
State Director Advices: 1945-19479971

Universal Military Training, 1st Report to Congress: 195110053