Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steve Early, who seemed destined to handle at least one more big newsbreak before he quit, told hastily gathering newsmen to stand by. The President, he said, is preparing a proclamation. "Will it be about V-E day?" he was asked. "Not exactly," he answered, "but something like it." Radiomen were told to hook up their microphones at the White House for the reading of the proclamation...
They instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying (in Link trainers), taught Navy airmen to shoot. They had become metalsmiths, radiomen, aviation machinist's mates, truck drivers, laboratory technicians, decoders and cooks. There are some 1,000 naval installations in the U.S., and at roughly half of them WAVES are at work. At the Navy Department in Washington there are more Navy women than men. In Hawaii, the farthest place overseas to which Congress would let them venture, the WAVES are competently filling a crying need for yeomen, aviation ratings, hospital corpsmen...
Sole offerings of the Navy are its air crewman and radio technician programs, both of which bear promise of promotion to petty officer rankings. With physical requirements almost up to Air Corps standards, the former plan is designed to train gunners, mechanics, and radiomen, although candidates with markedly superior ability may be given pilot training and eventually commissions...
Behind the Dixie Flyer's tender were two baggage cars and 14 coaches. In the first three coaches rode 75 Army Air Forces pilots, gunners and radiomen. Most of them had flown dangerous missions over Italy, had earned and spent 30 days at home in the U.S. Now, assigned to duty in the U.S., they were bound for Miami. Before they went to bed, they yelled, sang, talked with a luxurious feeling of safety about bombing raids. The crash that sent their sleepers rolling into the soybean fields beside the track killed 25 of them within seconds...
From their fifth-floor headquarters in the Stevens Hotel, CBS engineers began to lay 600 feet of microphone cable. They had to work past NBC's headquarters, past the rooms of other radiomen. Their rivals suspected nothing. The wire eventually reached the Democratic Committee room on the fourth floor. A microphone was attached to it and hidden in a black bag under a chair. The scoop...