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.
mentally deficient draftees admitted to US military 1941screening the ww2 draft pool 1941ww2 military psychiatrists screen 1940 draft pool for psychoticsDr Harry Stack Sullivan director of William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation 1941Lieutenant Colonel William C Porter psychiatrist at Walter Reed General HospitalSelective Service induction psychiatrists 1941Dr Winfred Overholser of St Elizabeth's Hospital Washington DCDr Harry A Steckel of the American Psychiatric Association1941Frederick Osborn chairman of the President's Civilian Advisory Committee of Selective Service 1941
mentally deficient draftees admitted to US military 1941screening the ww2 draft pool 1941ww2 military psychiatrists screen 1940 draft pool for psychoticsDr Harry Stack Sullivan director of William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation 1941Lieutenant Colonel William C Porter psychiatrist at Walter Reed General HospitalSelective Service induction psychiatrists 1941Dr Winfred Overholser of St Elizabeth's Hospital Washington DCDr Harry A Steckel of the American Psychiatric Association1941Frederick Osborn chairman of the President's Civilian Advisory Committee of Selective Service 1941
