[Milsurplus] Medals for Band Members

[Jim Haynes]

A somewhat similar story:  Before Pearl Harbor some of the ships carried
bands.  After the attack the band members were left without ships to play
on, so they were pressed into service in Joe Rochefort's codebreaking
operation, where they were turned into IBM punched card machine operators.
(Source the book Joe Rochefort's War ; the odyssey of the codebreaker
who outwitted Yamamoto at Midway  by Elliot Carlson)

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