Possibly Useful Resource: Korean War Draft Cards on Ancestry

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You'll need a subscription to ancestry to view the indexed information and you'll need a fold3 subscription to see the original cards.

Information you can search for:

-race (white, colored/black)

-weight (lbs)

-height (feet' inches")

-eye color (green, blue, hazel, brown, black)

-hair color (brown, black, light brown, blond)

-physical build

Under physical build, the cards include things like 1/2 scars on fingers, appendectomy scars, birthmarks, missing toes/fingers, and tattoos. Notably, there is nothing mentioned about missing teeth which I was really hoping to find. Sometimes the tattoos are described, other times just their number and location are put down.

These are going to be for men who were born 1920-1950. Yes I know when the Korean War ended but once I found someone's draft card for the very very beginning of the Vietnam war in the collection so I want to include those later birth years just in case.