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Shortly after the first explosion, Veteran Ham B. H. Standley (W5FQQ) of Houston rushed to the scene, set up his emergency unit and began transmitting messages. Samples: "Joe Vasquez not expected to live. Is in Room 323, St. Joseph's Infirmary [Houston]." "To Fort Crockett: send all available officer-type gas masks." "To Houston Boilermakers' Union: please send 50 bottles of oxygen and acetylene Texas City...
...While Standley's first messages were crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...
...some 36 hours Standley broadcast almost continuously. At first, only priority messages (requests and instructions for Red Cross workers, embalmers, blood donors, etc.) were handled. Later, he sent and received "personal welfare" transmissions (inquiries about individuals). When the second explosion came at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, Standley flung himself to the floor and went on transmitting in a shower of glass. After 250-odd messages, with the emergency over, dog-tired Standley went off the air and home...
Stalin had told at least two U.S. diplomats- Cordell Hull and Admiral William Standley, former Ambassador to Moscow - that he was going to fight Japan. He had added (to Standley) that he would open fire within 90 days of Germany's surrender, and he had repeated the statement at Yalta. The men who heard him believed that Stalin would keep his word...
...Lieutenant. The other ten: Admirals William H. Standley, Thomas C. Hart, Joseph M. Reeves, Harry E. Yarnell, Arthur J. Hepburn, Orin G. Murfin, Edward C. Kalbfus, Claude C. Bloch, James O. Richardson, Charles P. Snyder-plus one, Jonas H. Ingram, whose promotion has now been announced (TIME...