[GreenKeys] Historical/Navy questions

[Nick England]

I think I’ve read somewhere about war correspondents filing stories via
RATT from Iowa late in WW2. And M15 would have been used for that.

Also Iowa had radio facsimile used towards the end of the war.

The Pearl Harbor installation was disestablished in March 1945, in order to
provide a mobile unit. This was transferred to the USS Iowa, in the forward
area, transmitting pictures to Guam for retransmission, and on occasion,
relaying pictures via Guam directly to San Francisco for delivery to the
War Picture Pool. On 27 August 1945, the radiophoto unit aboard the USS
Iowa established the first direct two-way communication between the
continental United States and naval forces in Japanese home waters,
transmitting pictures of the task force entering Sagami Bay, Japan.

An increasing flow of picture transmissions continued through, and
culminated in, the successful handling of the Japanese surrender pictures
of 2 September 1945, taken aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The films
of the first signing ceremonies were taken by boat to the USS Iowa, where
they were developed, printed, and transmitted directly to San Francisco by
the mobile radiophoto unit. Total elapsed time, from taking the pictures
until delivery to east coast wire services for distribution to newspapers,
was approximately 4 hours.



Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net> wrote:

> Some questions and discussions from the ship today, maybe Nick or Duncan
> might have insight:
>
> 1. Does anyone know if an IOWA class ship had any Model 15 gear onboard
> when first deployed?
>
> 2. Would message handling ever send or receive personal traffic for
> sailors onboard from friends/family (aka telegrams) other than military
> orders?
>
> The second question was from a guest.
>
> Jeff
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