While most of us played hopscotch, jump rope, and board games, 12-year-old Calvin Graham shaved his face so he would grow some stubble and practiced speaking in a deep voice, all so he could join the US navy and fight for his country.
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But the fact that he tried to get in isn’t the crazy part. What’s crazy is that he managed to do so. Moreover, he enlisted into the army and fought two of the toughest Naval Battles in WWII, all before his 13th birthday. So how did this baby-faced boy fool everyone? And what happened when people discovered his true identity?