Norwood In The Service-This Day In Norwood History-March 13, 1941

Seventeen Off For Selective Service From Norwood District

Tuesday of this week saw seventeen of the Norwood draft district’s quota of twenty-two leaving for selective service training. The five remaining members of this March 11th call will follow probably next week Thursday.

Of the seventeen who left Tuesday, eleven were volunteers, ten of these from Norwood. Altogether, thirteen Norwood boys were included in the Tuesday group.

Norwood volunteers were Albert Chully, Joseph Tranavitch, Charles H. Slaney, Anthony Long, Stanley Wallan, Joseph E Whitecavage, Timothy J Donahue, James E. Flynn, Edward C Martin, and John W. Waitonis. Sharon volunteer was Harold E. Davis.

Six other selectees were Michael Arbachuck, John A Stanovich, and Joseph A Yankovitch, all of Norwood, Oscar A. Levesque and Arthur J Metropolis of Foxboro, and Francis J Markt of Sharon.

Names of the remaining five of this call will not be released until early next week, with the boys due to leave on next Thursday.

Binder, Gustavson Get Appointments As Flying Cadets

William Van Landingham Binder, 261 Winter Street, Norwood, and Robert Gustavson, 9 Beacon Street, Islington, are among the New England young men appointed to start Army Flying Cadet training on March 19th. These men will start their seven-months training course at three different aviation schools, and upon completion of the course they will receive commissions as second lieutenants in the Air Corps Reserve.

Massachusetts men, among them Binder and Gustavson, make up more than half the flying cadet class, with 66 from the state on the list. They will go to Alabama Institute of Aeronautics, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for their first three months of training Thereafter, they will take their basic and advanced flying training at Army airfields.

(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)