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There was a Fortress radioman named Warrenfels who heard that a radio operator was urgently needed on Bataan. He volunteered to go, boarded a ship trying to run the Jap blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left...
...time for me to take off, so we ran across the primitive flying field to the already warming plane in which I was acting radioman. He laid his topee carefully on a palm stump so the slipstream wouldn't blow it off and climbed up on the wing beside my cockpit. 'So long!' he yelled above the roar of the motor. 'See you in Honolulu sometime.' Then he climbed down and stood for a few seconds with his head hanging in that quizzical way of his, his eyes looking up. Suddenly he clambered...
Gene Aldrich. Youngest of the three was Gene Aldrich, 22-year-old Missouri farm boy. He was a radioman and gunner, with only 15 months' experience in the Navy. He had been a cook in a CCC camp, and as the days of torment and hunger closed down on the raft, Gene would regularly "cook meals" for his mates. When the sun rose on three empty bellies, Gene liked to recall shooting squirrels for breakfast with his father . . . "It seems there are a lot of squirrels in Missouri," says Dixon dryly...
...blanket of fog and censorship in which Alaska was muffled last week one ray of sunshine peeped: a letter from Major Bill Adams, onetime West Coast radioman. Printed in Broadcasting the letter told of a little "one-lung outfit," KODK, whose tiny transmitter made a welcome whistle in lonely Fort Greely on Kodiak Island...
Before Pearl Harbor, the Navy fed its advanced schools with hand-picked graduates of commercial radio schools. Now it grabs up hams at recruiting offices, tests them in mathematics, electricity, shop practice, radio; those who pass get ratings (radioman, second or third class), are shipped to W9XBK. They live at the Naval Armory, half a mile away, work nine hours, six days a week, five hours on Sundays, cram in another two hours of "homework" nightly...