Station HYPO

This report was prepared as UNCLASSIFIED by Navy personnel with access to classified records and was reviewed by the Naval Security Group and later the NSA to ensure it contained no sensitive information. Archived at the NSG Repository in Crane, Indiana, Special Research Histories No. 186 (January 3, 1980) draws on various historical sources to provide a narrative of a naval activity. It is not an official Navy history, and its completeness and accuracy are not guaranteed.

By Thomas W. Butler

I have said elsewhere in these reminiscences that those of us at Fleet Radio Unit Pacific FRU­PAC on Iwo Jima in August 1945, unreservedly en­dorsed the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

By Thomas W. Butler

Dick Schrey was about 20 years old when he re­ported in at Fleet Radio Unit FRUPAC-Iwo Jima in June of 1945. He was a short, husky guy with an easy smile and a good sense of humor. 44 of us served to­gether for several months at FRUPAC on that tiny (nine square miles) backwater island which none of us would ever have heard of it it were not for WWII and the bitter battle which was fought there that year.

By Thomas W. Butler

By August 1945 our operations shack at FRUPAC, Iowa Jima had grown big enough to hold several inter­cept positions, a D/F Net reporting position, a plotting table, a heater, a couple of tables, a hotplate and a coffee pot. The “head” was an outside privy about 50 yards down the black sand beach.

`M’ Branchers’ spirit and pride seen in BEQ

The “M” branchers have spirit and pride. If you don’t believe it take a few minutes and have a look at the third deck, east wing of BEQ 1082.