Norwood In The Service-This Day In Norwood History-March 6, 1942

Pvt. 1st. CL Joseph Caruso, 324 Lenox Street, is with the 5th Marines at New River, North Carolina. In the Reserves, he was called in November 1940, and was first at Quantico, Virginia. On the S. S. Henry Lee, he visited Puerto Rico and Cuba. He was seventeen and in Norwood high when called.

Andrew Perednia, 24 year 24-year-old Norwood athlete, was sworn into the U. S. Naval Reserve last Thursday at the Boston Recruiting Station. He was given the rating of Yeoman, Second Class.

Perednia is a graduate of Norwood High School where he played football, and baseball and was a member of the track team. He later was graduated from Burdett College, Boston. His brother, Caspar, is now serving with the Army Air Corps.

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Private Wiliam J Flaherty of 1 47 Silver Street sends word that he has been transferred from the Parris Island Training Center, S. C., to New River, N C.

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Private George F. Blanchard, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Blanchard of Bullard Street, Walpole, has been promoted to Staff-Sergeant at Albrook Field, Panama.

After graduating from Walpole High in 1937, he was employed as a clerk at Winslow Bros. & Smith, Norwood. Enlisting in the Army on October 30, 1940, he was sent to Fort Slocum, Staten Island, New York, remaining there for two months.

From Fort Amador where he was sent from Fort Slocum, he was transferred in November to AJbrook Field where he is now head clerk.

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William Cheney of 1095 Washington Street, Norwood, enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps last Wednesday He la now stationed, at Parris Island, South Carolina.

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Robert Bothwell of Washington Street, Norwood, who enlisted in the Army Air Corps on January 5th is stationed with the 27th Air Base Group, Boom Town, MacDill, Florida. Twenty-two years old, Robert is a graduate of Norwood High and was a mechanic at Bird and Son’s before entering the Air Corps. He is the son of William Bothwell, Chapel street.

Edward A. Bothwell, 28, Robert’s brother, was inducted into the Army last September. He is with Company M, 166 Infantry, U. S. Recreational Area, New Orleans, Louisiana. Before entering the Army, he was employed as a machinist at Winslow Bros. A Smith.

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A card from Mike Jasko asks that his Free Press be forwarded now to Lawson Field, Fort Benning, Georgia. He’s been transferred back there from Fort Dix, New Jersey. Mike is with the 16th Bombardment Squadron.

William John Jemison, son of Charles Jemison of 60 Guild Street, recently was transferred to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Jemison enlisted in the Navy at the Boston Recruiting office in January and was sent to the Naval Training Station at Newport, R.I., for his elementary training.

At Pensacola, he will be assigned to duty with the ground crews of one of the flying squadrons stationed at the “Annapolis of the Air,” and will soon be eligible to advance in rate with a considerable increase in pay.

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An interesting sidelight on the Philippine front comes from Rog Flaherty with the First Armored Division at Fort Knox, Kentucky, who says he Is writing in the room adjoining the day room “where soldiers maintain a high morale with ping pong, pool, spicy Detective stories, and Chatanooga Choo Choo on a battered piano, and the radio also going very loudly.”

Rog asks: “What do you think of McArthur’s boys? You know his tank boys were on maneuvers with us and I went on beer parties with them Ft Polk. They are very sloppy in dress and manners military; they go on double dates with their officers, and quite often tell the nearest Louie to go to hell. But I had an idea they could fight like hell.” To which, you ain’t kiddin’ either.

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“They’re in the Service” fans are not confined to Norwood. The buddies of a Norwood boy in service sent along the lowdown on him this week. They’re in the Coast Artillery stationed at East Point, Nahant

They write: “A bit of news from one of Norwood’s fine young men, Pvt. Dennis J. Murphy. Dennis is a Private in the Coast Artillery, East Point, Nahant, Mass. He has just been taken to the Fort Banks Army Hospital where he is suffering a bad chest cold received while at work in East Point.

“Dennis is one of nine married men in our camp, being married three months. He voluntarily enlisted in the Army and was stationed at Boston Harbor Forts. He’s been in the Army now four weeks, and has already been made acting Corporal.

“Before entering the Army, he made his home at 30 Winfield Street with his wife, the former Dorothy McDevitt of East Walpole.

”We hope his illness will be short, as we miss him at work. Sincerely yours. His Buddies.”

“P-S. Dennis has the Free Press sent to him every week by his wife. That’s how we found out the paper prints news of the men in the Army.”

And thanks very much to his Buddies.

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A Norwood boy was among the three Aviation Cadets and one student officer In Class 42F at Shaw Field, Sumter, South Carolina, who soloed on Friday, February 27th, the fifth day of flying instruction for this new group and the first day on which any students were allowed to solo. He was Cadet Duncan Leigh Cushing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Cushing of Rosemary Street.

Cadet Cushing attended Colby College and Harvard College, and is a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity He took the primary and secondary civilian pilot training course before becoming an Aviation Cadet and received his primary training at Avon Park, Florida.

The students are not allowed to solo until the fifth ride and until they have had three or more hours of flying time in the basic trainer planes. This class started training Sunday, February 22, and were not able to fly on Tuesday because of bad weather. Therefore, Friday was the first day on which any of Class 42F were allowed to solo.

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Maggio Cianniarelli, a Pharmacists Mate in the U. S. Navy, is stationed at the Chelsea Naval Hospital. He spent the past weekend on leave at home in Norwood.

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Among United Church men In service, not already reported in this column, are: Captain Carleton Kingsford at Draw Field, Tampa, Florida, Chief Francis E. Law, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Law, on the U. S. S. Vincennes; Private Everett B. Pyne, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pyne, at Fort Eustis, Virginia; Private Ernest Hanscom, son of Mr and Mrs. Moses Hanscom, with a Signal Corps at Barinquen Field, Puerto Rico; and Private Melvin J. White at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois.

(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)