WWII - groups selected
The largest group of selectees yet to be sent from Putnam county at any one time by the Putnam County Selective Service board, left the American Legion home at eight o’clock Monday morning for Fort Benjamin Harrison for physical examination and induction into the ever expanding armed forces of the nation. This group included fifty-nine men. The largest group prior to this one was sent from the Big Four early in the year. Those going Monday were:
Harold R. Minnick
Roy B. Humphrey
Harold A. Flint, Enl. into Navy
Clarence E. Frazier
Charles E. Carswell
James G. McCutchan
Wilson T, Handy, Jr.
Claude L. Best
Charles Lee Wells
Joseph M. Cline, Voc.
Cecil C. Arnold
John C. Waddle
Raymond H. Lehr
Raymond L. Cochenour
Glenn M. Michael
Paul Cordray
Ernest W. Chiles
Harry L. Bell
John J. Danahey
Manford Romine, Transferred to L B No. 1, Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
Dale Robinson
Harold Sears
Joseph Carl Steele, transferred L B No. 8. Gary
Charles Maynard Newgent, Jr.
Cecile Albright
Clyde Hurst
John Dozier
Harry Franklin Dickerson
William Foster Rickett
Robert Owen
Harry Barrick
Clarence Grimes
Elmer Northern
Robert Harvey
Howard Harmless, Enl. Air Corps
Donald Grimes
Robert Friend, Enl. U. S. Army
Lloyd Ray Buis
Charles W. Buis
Jacob E. Plessinger
Charles C. Crawley, Jr.
Wilbur K. Grimes, Enl. Reserve Corps
Wilmer Ross
Wm. Ridgeway
Kenneth Mullis
Paul Grimes, Enl. Reserve Corps
Leroy Stanley Tilley
Charles Foxx
John McCutchan
Herschel Neal, Jr
Chester Wells
Charles W. Thomas
Eugene D. Nickerson
John Aker
Bobby Lawson
Howard E. Graham
Norman E. Fletcher
Ralph Hovermale
Oscar J. Lame, transferred from L B No. 1. Champaign, Illinois
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1942.