Maxmillan Rabinovitch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rabinovitch, 923 Washington Street, is now stationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He’s a chemist in the Army. He enlisted February 2nd.
Rabinovitch is a graduate of Norwood High and Boston University and worked at Winslow Bros. & Smith before enlisting.
Ralph Harvey Nutter, 64 Elm Street, is now training at the Replacement Training Center at Maxwell Field, Alabama, as an aviation cadet. Before his appointment as a cadet January 7th, he was a student at Harvard Law School.
Upon completion of his pre-flight training at Maxwell Field, Cadet Nutter will leave for one of the many primary schools in the Southeast for the initial phase of his flight training.
Another boy getting aviation cadet training is Francis Carducci, Prospect Street. He left Norwood December 20th and is located at Greenville, Mississippi, getting his basic training.
Clarence Robinson, who has enlisted in the Marines, will leave for training on April 6th.
Pvt Elmer Marsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Marsh of 67 Rock Street. Norwood, has been assigned tn Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 1st Air Support Command, according to an announcement from Mitchell Field.
Pvt Marsh, thus has become a member of an organization whose function is defined as the handling “of all types of aviation, working In direct connection with, and in support of ground forces,” and which, carrying out its mission of co-operation with other forces is now going beyond its original role by working with other organizations of the First Air Force and with the Navy in carrying on Atlantic patrols with planes based at secret dispersal bases all along the coast
Marsh enlisted in the Army Air Forces on January 19th.
Henry F. Breen, 3rd, Prospect Street, who joined the Army a month ago is stationed with the 32nd Infantry at Camp Croft, S. Carolina.
A number of boys were home on furlough on the past weekend. Rog Flaherty was home from Fort Knox, John Lanzoni was up from Camp Mead, Maryland; Sergeant Ralph Conrad from his station at Plymouth; Sergeant Ernest G Paciorkowski from Camp Edwards; Sergeant Edward Stone from Camp Grant, Illinois, and Chester A. Picdzewicz is having a longer furlough at home.
Ernest J. Wiesmann, 176 Roosevelt Avenue, was among 136 Aviation Cadets who left Boston yesterday for Maxwell Field, Alabama. After some seven months of training, they will earn their wings and go on duty as Second Lieutenants in the Air Corps Reserve. In the group with Wiesmann, was Roger T. Eckfcldt, son of Major General Roger Eckfeldt, Commander of the 26th Division.
Corporal Francis Morrison writes from his station hospital that the verdict is ‘‘they’re afraid I’m going to live”. And the nurses aren’t too bad looking.
Henry Weiss, briefly reported last week, has landed at the Newport Training Station and says he “doesn’t look good in a sailor suit.”
He says: ‘‘‘Out of 340 men, only 9 are from New England. All the rest hail from Texas, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Shanghai, Oklahoma, Alabama. These crazy cowboys are never without a lasso and some of the rope tricks are pretty good. One fellow has pictures of the bombing of Shanghai. MacLean, the photographer would love ’em.”
Henry’s sidekick, Lawrie Farnum whose Bantam roadster used to be a familiar sight in town, has just been moved from his last station to Oregon where his Signal Platoon is training recruits.
He says: “The countryside here is majestically lovely. Hills on all sides of us rolling to the distant horizons. Snow still caps them giving them the appearance of mandarins. In the early hours of morning, the veil of mist hangs heavy making everything hauntingly lovely.”
It wasn’t quite right Eddie Paolucci’s leaving shortly for Aviation Cadet training. Sworn in, he’s on a ninety day furlough. Jo Flynn and Buddy Stowers are in the same position.
(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)