[Milsurplus] Flying Radio Operators

[Brenda Gentry]

Was there any provision from the FCC for military radio operators who 
knew code well to get an amateur license more easily and quickly? There 
was and is a streamlined process for military pilots to get pilot's 
licenses.

     B. Gentry, KA2IVY

On 3/15/25 6:38, Rob Flory wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There was a pretty cool one that I never got to know.  My friend's 
> grandfather Watson Czerwinski was an AAF radio operator in WWII.  He 
> was also a ham.  He became an engineer and did some pretty interesting 
> antenna work with the Army at Camp Evans, some of which we recognize 
> as vehicular antennas, and others maybe not including a helicopter 
> antenna.
>
> He was a ham also I think W2JSJ.
>
> Check out this biography from an IEEE publication:
>
> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1622108 
> <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1622108>
>
> His would be a good story to tell at InfoAge.
>
> Rob
>
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