[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Living Memory Project: WWII Merchant Marine Signals

[Mike A]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 09:17:27AM -0500, David Stinson wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "don davis" <dxguy at earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] Living Memory Project: WWII Merchant Marine
> Signals
> 
> 
> >.....Perhaps these were from class work or
> >training sessions?
> Morning, Don.
> I doubt it.  The context is too "real life" current
> and training materials would have been prepared beforehand.
> In one log entry, the Commodore calls the entire convoy
> onto the TBY intercom and chews them out because he heard
> someone cussing a blue streak on the net.
> You wouldn't see that in training materials.
> They wouldn't contain announcements like the invasion of France
> because those dates and times were most certainly "Secret"
> before the actual landings.
> 
> Moreover- these are not military logs.
> They are commercial Merchant Marine logs.
> Merchant Marine worked under a different set of rules.
> Also- in the later log entries, information previously sent
> "in the clear" is coded, much to my frustration.
> 
> Last month, a couple of people said they knew of
> Comm officers still living to whome they would give
> the logs.  I hope they follow-through.
> 
> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S

 Wonder if "TOX" is not "time of transmission", but "time of execution". 

 I wish I had more to add; looking forward to the scans. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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