Oral history interview with Dr. Hugh M. Ayer, 1998 February 04.

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Oral history interview with Dr. Hugh M. Ayer, 1998 February 04.

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Interview with Dr. Hugh M. Ayer, college professor and navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a member of FRUPAC (Fleet Radio Unit, Pacific) and the interception of Japanese naval codes in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Upbringing on a Kentucky tobacco farm; education; boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, 1943; training as a naval radio operator, University of Chicago; assignment to Bainbridge Island, Washington, 1943; interception of Japanese naval communications; katakana; Japanese call signs and communications signals; Japanese communications priorities; U. S. naval secrecy and security procedures; FOX broadcasts; Japanese circuits; search operations; interception of Soviet radio code; transfer to Station Wahiawa, Oahu, August, 1945; post-World War II career highlights.

85 leaves : facsim. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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