Did you know that Captain Jack S. Holtwick, Jr., USN is credited with establishing the Communication Technician (CT) rating for the U.S. Navy in 1948?
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Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, the infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence briefing. The reports detailed British troop positions, supply routes, convoy schedules and operational plans across North Africa — intelligence so precise that Rommel called it “die gute Quelle,” the good source.
Continue reading “Italy Once Stole Secret American Intelligence Codes Which Nearly Made Britain Lose WWII”SRH-186: A brief history of the U.S. Naval Supplementary Radio Station Iwo Jima March –December 1945
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.
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January 16 marks the anniversary of the murder of Senior Chief Shannon Kent in Syria. We ask you to join our effort by sending a personal letter to the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable John Phelan, urging him to seriously consider naming an Arleigh Burke–class destroyer in her honor and remembrance.
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.
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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.
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