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Photographer: Byron Hooks
Taken: September 3, 2014
Caption: Listening Positions
Additional Description: During WW II in this station, radio men at positions similar to this would listen for Morse code overhead sets. They would type on their “mill” any encrypted message they heard. The message was hand-delivered to teletype operators for relay to Washington, DC.

If a radioman recognized the message is coming from a U-boat, he would immediately send the frequency to the direction finding net and then type the message on his mill.

The desk is an actual artifact as seen in the photographs.
Submitted: November 1, 2014, by Byron Hooks of Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p290707
File Size: 0.120 Megabytes

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