Willie Mosconi question

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He was born in 1913 and would have been 28 when WW II for the US started. I find nothing on any service or deferment.Was he 4f or hardship?
 
If I remember correctly, he spent his military time going around the bases putting on exhibitions.
 
He enlisted April 1945 while living in Camden, New Jersey. Here's Willie's military record ---> HERE

He was in the Army for 8 months, April 20, 1945, to December 3, 1945.
 
measureman said:
He was born in 1913 and would have been 28 when WW II for the US started. I find nothing on any service or deferment.Was he 4f or hardship?
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In 1942 Willie was living in Jackson, MI, working as a lathe operator producing grinding wheels at a Goodyear defense plant. The work was deemed essential to the war effort and he received a deferment from the draft. In early 1944, after an accident that almost severed a finger on his bridge hand, he quit the job and was immediately reclassified 1-A and he was inducted on March 16th at Fort Dix, NJ. He was assigned to Special services, in the entertainment division. He was eventually given a hardship discharge when his wife, Ann, put their kids in a foster home and disappeared. The Red Cross contacted him and he was out.

Lou Figueroa
 
lfigueroa said:
In 1942 Willie was living in Jackson, MI, working as a lathe operator producing grinding wheels at a Goodyear defense plant. The work was deemed essential to the war effort and he received a deferment from the draft. In early 1944, after an accident that almost severed a finger on his bridge hand, he quit the job and was immediately reclassified 1-A and he was inducted on March 16th at Fort Dix, NJ. He was assigned to Special services, in the entertainment division. He was eventually given a hardship discharge when his wife, Ann, put their kids in a foster home and disappeared. The Red Cross contacted him and he was out.

Lou Figueroa
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And the mystery begins here....
 
Rip

Willie Mosconi was the World's Greatest pocket billiard player in history. No one will ever match his "combined" record of personal and professional accomplishment within the billiard industry.:cool:
 
My dad and his brothers all signed up...or tried to. That was indeed the "greatest generation"
with most anxious to join. Both my uncles ended up in the then "army air corps". Dad had a turkey ranch.
He was told to stay home and raise those birds for the military.

It seems that Willie did his part.
 
lfigueroa said:
In 1942 Willie was living in Jackson, MI, working as a lathe operator producing grinding wheels at a Goodyear defense plant. The work was deemed essential to the war effort and he received a deferment from the draft. In early 1944, after an accident that almost severed a finger on his bridge hand, he quit the job and was immediately reclassified 1-A and he was inducted on March 16th at Fort Dix, NJ. He was assigned to Special services, in the entertainment division. He was eventually given a hardship discharge when his wife, Ann, put their kids in a foster home and disappeared. The Red Cross contacted him and he was out.

Lou Figueroa
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Interesting, did he ever get his kids back?
 
Cdryden said:
Interesting, did he ever get his kids back?
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Yes. She had dropped them off with relatives and then took off. About eight years later Willie remarried and the woman came out of the woodwork and tried to make custody an issue but the kids told the judge they didn't even know who she was.

Lou Figueroa
 
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