OH 1223 | Oral History

OH 1223

College professor and administrator. His experiences as a member of FRUPAC (Fleet Radio Unit, Pacific) and the interception of Japanese naval codes in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Upbringing on a Kentucky tobacco farm; education; boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, 1943; training as a naval radio operator, University of Chicago; assignment to Bainbridge Island, Washington, 1943; interception of Japanese naval communications; katakana; Japanese call signs and communications signals; Japanese communications priorities; U. S. naval secrecy and security procedures; FOX broadcasts; Japanese circuits; search operations; interception of Soviet radio code; transfer to Station Wahiawa, Oahu, August, 1945; post-World War II career highlights.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 85 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello
Date of Interview February 4, 1998

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