The Association of Old Crows annually presents awards to dedicated individuals and shore units in recognition of their outstanding contributions and achievements in Electronic Warfare (EW) and Information Operations (IO).
The below message solicits nominations for the period JAN-DEC 2015.
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In April 1941, I was called to active duty as an Ensign and ordered to a special communication “Refresher” school in Los Angeles at the Naval Reserve Armory in Chevez Ravine. I was one of about thirty reserve officers who qualified as communications officers for convoy duty. Continue reading “Corregidor Series 5 of 5: Corregidor Remembered By RADM Ralph Cook (First CNSG)”
On March 5, 1942, COMINCH sent a priority message to COMSIXTEEN (052220Z):
“Evacuate personnel of Radio Intelligence Unit soon as possible. If space cannot be made available in submarine use any means of transportation to get them at least to Southern Philippines Take all steps possible to prevent loss of personnel of Radio Intelligence Unit.”
During the night of February 4, 1942, the submarine USS SEADRAGON (SS-194) made its way into Manila Bay and to the dock at Corregidor, where the first team consisting of four officers, LCDRs S.A Carlson, G.M. Richardson, LT R.J. Fabian (1) and ENS R.W. Lewis and 13 men embarked. The submarine slipped out of the harbor in the early morning hours of February 5 and set sail for Java. In addition to the Radio Intelligence party, she had picked up two tons of submarines spare parts, 23 torpedoes, and three other officers (one Army and two Navy) who were not identified. The voyage was without incident and the party disembarked at Surabaya, Java on or about February 11.
The move of Station “C” to Corregidor represented the conclusion of several years of plans, negotiations, and construction. The original idea of moving the Radio Intelligence Station, as it was then called, was apparently first conceived by CINCAF, Admiral Upham, and the Asiatic Communication Intelligence (COMINT) Officer, LT Wenger, in 1933. Continue reading “Corregidor Series 2 of 5: Corregidor Established”
By the mid-1920s, several enterprising radiomen on Asiatic duty assignments on the USS ISABEL (PY-10), USS PITTSBURGH (CA-4), and the men in the 4th Marine Headquarters at Shanghai, China, had self-trained themselves to intercept radio traffic (kata kana) that was transmitted on Japanese Navy radio circuits.
Continue reading “Corrigidor Series 1 of 5: The Beginning – From Olongapo to Corregidor”
