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Dear Mom, Pop & Girls,

You might have read about the fire we had at Kamiseya Friday morning. I was working at the time and was lucky not to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time. I am enclosing a newspaper article from a Japanese newspaper.

Just before Pearl Harbor, Chopmist Hill in Scituate, R.I., was the center of the world. That’s what the Federal Communications Commission discovered in 1941. The hill’s geographic and atmospheric conditions were extremely favorable for radio reception, and its receivers could grab wireless signals from much of the globe.

By John F. Pappone

I arrived in Japan mid July of 1964 at the ripe old age of eighteen, ready to begin my tour at Kamiseya in the “Land of the Rising Sun.” For the next two years and seven months, this would be my home away from home.

By Phil Hogan

There was a disastrous fire in the Operations Complex on the night of 23-24 September 1965. The Fifth Division (Fleet Support) spaces were located on the second floor directly above the source of the fire. They occupied a large section of the second deck of the building and maintained a 24-hour watch posture. I believe this deck was shared with the Fourth Division (Processing and Reporting), a section of “T” branchers, and others.

Joe Glockner who hosts the website with an extensive collection of CT related material provided the below memories of that night.

Let me first caveat this by saying the following remarks come from a memory that is just about 35 years old (of the happening).