Draft Exemption and Military Service
Prior to the U.S. entry into World War II, Quillen received a two-year Selective Service System Class 3-A draft deferment beginning in December 1940 through late November 1942.
Quillen later served in the United States Navy as a public information officer from late 1942 to 1946. Quillen received his overseas orders in late 1944, with his assignment aboard the Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36). The USS Antietam entered the Pacific theater of operations too late in the war to participate in any combat actions, as the carrier steamed into Hawaii from the Panama Canal just as the first atomic bomb was dropped by the United States on Japan.
The National Archives records list LT (j.g.) J.H. Quillen's service number within the USS Antietam's roster of officers for July 1, 1945 as #235897.
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