Posted on 05/26/2007 4:19:18 PM PDT by msnpatriot
FLORENCE — As the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, he crawled up the cliffs on his hands and feet on Day 1 of D-Day.
"I trained as a CW operator, which is code,” he said. “I thought I was going to end up in the infantry. I’m glad I didn’t.”
After basic, he went to a camp near St. Louis, Mo., to learn how to send messages through high speed Morris Code.
From there, he went overseas to England, where he continued to train “night and day for the invasion of France,” said Weaver, who was promoted to staff sergeant and in charge of his unit.
(Excerpt) Read more at canoncitydailyrecord.com ...
WTF??
Yeah...Typo...I was going to change it to Morse and didn’t....
Morris diddy dumdum diddy
Thanks for the links...!
You mean .-- - ..-. , don't you? :-)
I'm pretty familiar with Morse Code; I'm being trained in it right now. It is quite difficult. It's quite difficult.
Just curious, that people would be trained in Morse Code now...Where? Military?....I use it for ham radio...
“I’m pretty familiar with Morse Code; I’m being trained in it right now. It is quite difficult. It’s quite difficult.”
tlj18, you’ll probably enjoy Germany. I spent four years there with the 1st Mob (1st Combat Communication Squadron) at Wiesbaden, Sembach, and Ramstein. It’s a crazy country, but also a nice one in many ways. Be sure to pack extra long underwear, year-round average temp is about 40 degrees F. Odds are real good you’ll be working with the Mob now and again. They are a great unit. Good luck, and God Bless.
WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
At what speed do you use Morse Code on Ham radio? In order to graduate the Morse Code class that I'm in, I have to be able to copy at 20 groups per minute (1 group = 5 characters). I'm up to 8 GPM currently.
Yeah, Morris was Sam’s younger brother.
“At what speed do you use Morse Code on Ham radio? In order to graduate the Morse Code class that I’m in, I have to be able to copy at 20 groups per minute (1 group = 5 characters). I’m up to 8 GPM currently.”
Thanks for filling me in on that...Good to know
“I didn’t like him,” he said. “I don’t think he gave two snaps for us. He wasn’t like some of the officers, who cared about us.”
"Ruth Patton later wrote about a letter that George Patton sent to her mother during the First World War.
He wrote to her that he had been inspecting a battlefield at night, and that the dead soldiers, as yet unclaimed by the burial teams, were lying there in the moonlight. He said it was hard to tell the Americans and British from the Germans, and they all looked alike - very young and very dead - and he began to think how often their mothers had changed their diapers and wiped their noses, and suddenly the whole concept seemed unbearable, and he decided that the only way to survive under such a stress was to try to think of soldiers as numbers, not as individuals, and that the sooner the allies won, the sooner the slaughter of the innocents would cease.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWpatton.htm
Yep, that was Patton's rep. I was in his 3rd Army in December 1944 bulge for 3 weeks so I don't know personally. He was just referred to something like blood and guts. My unit was transferred to the 7th Army to defend Strasbourg. Not too pleasant either.
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