Any WWII history buffs here? Can someone tell what was involved in applying to OCS during that time?

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7. I don't know much about the process except mom

said dad was in OCS. He had been in college a few years & before that graduated from KMI, KY Military Institute HS.

He went through OCS and was in the Army AAA AW, Anti Aircraft Artillery, Automatic weapons with training at Fort Davis near Wilmington, NC and Fort Bliss, Texas.

2nd Lieutenant, shipped from NY to So. England, Dec. 1944, in combat in the Rhineland Campaign with the US 7th Army. Crossed the Rhine at Worms, Germany, then went on to Munich and was at the Liberation of Dachau. He stayed on with the Army of Occupation in Germany into 1946.

Dad was awarded the Bronze star for action during an attack by 88s when they were crossing a border, near the Rhine I think. He was promoted to 1st Lieut. I wish I'd asked mom more about his service.

https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/fire-1973