Healthy men I think up to 45 or 50 were drafted in WWII.
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I know the Nazis roped tons of old men into the volksturm at the end of the war, but this was like, when they were giving guns to 12 year olds level of desperate
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So in the UK the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 imposed conscription on all males aged between 18 and 41, and from 1941 men could be required to do military service up to the age of 51 and some form of service up to the age of 60.
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