[Milsurplus] World War II Radio Functions

[Mark Richards]

Hue Miller wrote:
> 
> Which makes me recall something i read about the capture of
> Guam. The Japanese rounded up all the radio ops except a 
> few ( most famously missing George Tweed, the "Ghost of 
> Guam" ). In the log books they found some Q signal they didn't
> recognize, which they mistook for a station call letter, or some
> code, and they mistreated some of the radio ops, trying to get 
> them to spill what this Q signal meant. I don't recall the source
> on this reading, but it's in my deep archives somewhere.
Why is it called "mistreatment"?  Today, it's torture.

Maybe in comparison it was mistreatment then, but I rather doubt it.

Just curious...

> 
> ( I always thought Geo. Tweed, in his postwar post-Navy career,
> should have done some ads for Zenith or Hallicrafters: "What 
> receiver does the 'Ghost of Guam' recommend ? Hallicrafters-
> The Radioman's Choice!" )
> 
> Have you ever seen a photo of the typical Navy buildings at 
> Miraviles and other Philippine sites, the buildings up on concrete
> pillars, and lots of windows? I have a photo in a Japanese 
> book, portraying a Japanese receiving station set up in one of 
> those same buildings.  -Hue Miller KA7LXY
Keep the bugs out and let the air in.