Volume 15 , Issue 28

1941 December 7th - Nine Students Join Air Corps

It was 7 December 1941, as the northwest Oklahoma newspaper (Alva Reveiw-Courier) reported that "Nine Students Join Air Corps," and College Boys Now in Reserve.

The nine Northwestern State College youths signed up to join the U. S. Army Air Corps, according to E. W. Moore, chief clerk in the Woods county selective service office in Alva, Oklahoma.

Recruiting officers were in Alva the week before, conducting interviews and taking applications for enlistments into the air corps. Nine students of Northwestern State College were given pre-physical examinations after making application for entrance, and each past the test.

They would be held in reserve pending their preliminary examinations which would be given when they were called up for active duty from the reserve ranks in which they were then placed.

Colonel Hollingsworth, Oklahoma recruiting commander, expressed his commendation to Moore for the fine cooperation received in Alva, Oklahoma.

The boys who had been accepted and placed on the air corps reserve list were:

Martin P. Benson, Donald W. Daniel, Ralph C. Cornelius, Edward C. Montgomery, Edward E. Sutter, Eldon C. Stout, Lawrence D. Arnett, Lewis E. Jordan, and Cut K. Cress.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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