As America was gearing up to fight another world war, the brass caps were reminded how incapable they were at identifying and isolating the mental incompetents during the last war, and they swore this war would be different. Numerous military and civilian psychiatrists were convened, and it was concluded that of the millions of men called, at least 15 percent would likely be off-their-rockers.
KEY WORDS: mentally deficient draftees admitted to US military 1941,screening the ww2 draft pool 1941,ww2 military psychiatrists screen 1940 draft pool for psychotics,Dr Harry Stack Sullivan director of William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation 1941,Lieutenant Colonel William C Porter psychiatrist at Walter Reed General Hospital,Selective Service induction psychiatrists 1941,Dr Winfred Overholser of St Elizabeth’s Hospital Washington DC,Dr Harry A Steckel of the American Psychiatric Association1941,Frederick Osborn chairman of the President’s Civilian Advisory Committee of Selective Service 1941
