[Milsurplus] New Mil. Urban Legend Making the Rounds?

Tue, 20 May 2003 13:00:56 -0400

And (just to get back on topic!) it's also true that Hollywood actress Hedy
Lamarr was the co-inventor of spread-spectrum frequency-agile radio
communications system in WWII, and held a patent on it!

See, for example, http://www.hypatiamaze.org/h_lamarr/scigrrl.html

--howard n7exn

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David L. Stinson wrote:

>I'm sure most of you have seen the "Captain Kangroo is really
>Iwo Jima Hero" story that goes around the net.
>>Comments?
>

I don't know about Mr. Rogers being a Navy seal. Wasn't he doing his
program in the 60s? It would be difficult to be in two places at once,
even for a seal. (o:

However....it is true the TV chef Julia Child was with the OSS in WWII.
Really!

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ