| Rabeler | Ruth | 05-18 | WAAC |
| Race | Frank | 04-07 | |
| Raitt | John | 08-28 | |
| Rathbone | Clarence E. | 06-05 | |
| Rathbun | Beatrice F. | 06-21 | WAAC |
| Rawlings | Ella | 06-05 | Floor supervisor at Oneonta Manufacturing Co. |
| Rawlinson | Elbert J. | 12-28 | Called for induction. |
| Raymond | John A. | 09-17 | 45 classified for induction. |
| Raymond | John A. | 09-22 | |
| Raymond | John A. | 10-13 | Leaving for military service. |
| Raymond | John A. | 11-26 | |
| Raynsford | Edward J. | 12-28 | Called for final physical examination. |
| Reclassifies | 177 men | 02-20 | |
| Redmond | Francis L. | 07-24 | |
| Reed | Robert | 12-15 | |
| Reed | William Perry | 11-27 | Marries Agnes Antoinette Oblak. |
| Reese | Jack | 01-21 | |
| Reeve | Charles F. | 09-17 | 45 classified for induction. |
| Reeve | Charles F. | 09-22 | |
| Reeve | Charles F. | 09-25 | |
| Reeve | Clarence | 04-06 | |
| Registered | 112 | 01-12 | |
| Registrants | 57 men | 01-27 | |
| Registrants | 63 men | 02-04 | |
| Reilly | Frank M. | 12-16 | Called for induction tests. |
| Reinhardt | Percy | 03-18 | |
| Reinshagen | Robert | 05-13 | |
| Reller | Donald F. | 10-11 | Leaving for military service. |
| Reller | Donald Frederick | 09-21 | Classified for induction. |
| Rendo | Erwin Frederic | 07-30 | Army reservist. |
| Renwick | Homer | 01-06 | |
| Reservists leave | 43 men | 02-24 | |
| Reyen | Wordsworth B. | 12-17 | |
| Reynolds | Thomas E. | 04-01 | |
| Rezen | Paul R. | 11-19 | |
| Richards | Harold S. | 09-21 | Classified for induction. |
| Riddell | Hugh | 01-27 | 3 brothers |
| Riddell | Leonard C. | 01-28 | 3 brothers |
| Riddell | Leslie | 01-28 | 3 brothers |
| Riddell | Leslie | 01-29 | Oneonta Star correction |
| Riddell | Leslie Donald | 12-16 | |
| Riddell | Morris | 08-25 | |
| Riggs | Arthur | 06-04 | Permanently disabled in Pearl Harbor attack and discharged. "Civilian attitude disturbs veteran of Pearl Harbor" |
| Riley | Desmond | 10-05 | |
| Riley | Robert E. | 09-16 | Promoted. |
| Roach | Richard | 06-05 | Promotion |
| Robb | Philip M. | 02-19 | |
| Roberts | Gordon B. | 02-27 | |
| Roberts | Lyle Louis | 09-21 | Classified for induction. |
| Robinson | Harold Norman | 03-27 | |
| Robinson | John | 12-10 | Reservist goes into Army service. |
| Robinson | John W. | 11-29 | Inducted by the Army. |
| Rockwell | Richard | 05-08 | |
| Rogers | Charles S. | 10-13 | |
| Rogers | Elizabeth J., | 02-12 | WAAC |
| Rogers | Harold | 05-28 | Marries Florence Loker. |
| Rogers | Louis | 09-23 | |
| Rolfe | Pershing | 05-05 | Friend of Kenneth A. Jeffers. |
| Roney | John W. | 02-19 | Letter home. |
| Roosevelt | Quentin | 05-08 | |
| Roosevelt | Quentin | 06-08 | |
| Rosa | Orville | 04-06 | Discharged |
| Rosekrans | Edward | 02-03 | |
| Rosher | Anthony | 03-26 | brother of Nicholas and Frank (Chico). |
| Rosher | Frank (Chico) | 03-26 | Brother of Nicholas and Anthony. |
| Rosher | Nicholas | 03-26 | promoted Brother of Anthony and Frank (Chico) Rosher. |
| Rostohar | John H. | 09-30 | Wounded in action. |
| Rowe | Ralph L. | 10-19 | Promoted. |
| Rowland | Earl | 09-23 | Reservists leave for Army Camp. |
| Rowland | Earl A. | 09-21 | Leave for camp induction. |
| Rowland | Earl A. | 09-25 | Inducted. |
| Rowlison | Clarence F. | 09-17 | 45 classified for induction. |
| Rudolph | Ralph | 01-06 | |
| Ruling | George C. | 09-22 | |
| Ruling | George C.` | 06-18 | Brother of Robert Charles Ruling. |
| Ruling | George Clinton | 06-18 | Marries Pauline Frances Bouton |
| Rush | Edward J. | 05-29 | |
| Russ | John | 09-25 | Brother of Vol A. Russ. |
| Russ | Vol A. | 09-25 | Promoted. Brother of John Russ. |
| Russell | Stanley A. | 03-27 | |
| Rutan | Donald | 10-06 | Prisoner of war in Germany. |
| Rutan | Donald A. | 08-17 | Missing in action. |
| Rutan | Donald A. | 12-15 | German prisoner of war. |
| Ryan | Lawrence Joseph | 03-27 |