i remember when i motors with homemade radio sets used to sit up until all hours of the night talking with other radio hams around the world how they'd pick up a lead in fairbanks alaska that was some day to keep pioneering with  been their home well you can guess the rest that signal corps poster cop don't talk and it wasn't long before he enlisted and today is later brother jim walked into a navy recruiting mother used to say the junior the youngest always worshiped his brother j and mother of course were pretty brave about it all and so like millions of other american boys jim and joe from the drilling they gave the boys those first two months they didn't feel much like letter writing to hear jim tell us the only time they didn't drill was when they were eating or sleeping  but after the basic training every serviceman have to go through we got our first real letter from jim jim always love a good letter writing dad was so tickled he took the letter down to the war plant where he works to read it to the boys jim said yeah prop and finally learning how to be a real radio man i made thirty in the morning until four fifteen in the afternoon we go from one class to another most of the fellows are around my own age and i mean we're getting a real education up a fellow goes through a school like this get trained that will fit him for most any kind of communications job what the big boss called the post war world instructors or experts most of them of had practical experience with all kinds of radio installation may not get the stuff across so it's understandable we're taught  repair a piece of equipment under any dish and how to build it from the ground up the course the big radio manufacturers are working exclusively for the army and navy keep us posted on all the latest improvement class and typing in code is what i like best they shoot the message is slow at first and speed it up until you're taking twenty four words a minute that stopped after we learned what makes the dancing  individual instruction on equipment just the same as they have aboard ship speaking of ships don't think the army boys are the only ones using walkie talkies we have of course and portable equipment that just are not allowed to tell you just how we use them believe me when the war is over they said they're going to play a pretty important role in communications right now they have a range of about five miles that's only the beginning guernica burn holes blame gosh i thought he'd never get a mining suddenly said jim brown part of this was the biggest moment of my life i made it from the classroom to the barracks in nothing flat don't laugh i had a date with a crow you see the crow is what navy men call a rating each man keep his crow under his mattress until he's earned the right to wear it when the time comes he can't get the needle and thread out fast enough that emblem says i'm not a radio man third class any time you see a fellow wearing it you can bet your boots he knows his stuff i don't mean that to be bragging  have gone through a navy communications school know what it really means to rate the next day with the skipper doing the honors we marched out on the parade ground to get on diplomas i wish you could have been there pop i know you have a war a job that size the government doesn't want people traveling around the country unless they have to well we've got our orders to shove off today and i'm all packed i can tell you where we're going but i'm on my way yes the folks back home are sort of proud of him too it seems that just about the time jim wrote he finished school brother joe wrote that he was leaving for mane each unit is operating in the field courier unable to contact his unit dashes back for the nearest possible equipment to get his mess radio coordinating the action radio making possible combined operations between all branches of the serv thanks to radio sergeant joe brown is able to report mission accomplished blending with the first wave radio units establish communication with ships offshore and look who's here the same sergeant john brown we last saw training in america no training camps no old machine guns are sitting red hot that yes it could happen even in wartime barton brown in contact with the radio room of the carrier recognizes his brother's voice don't like the old handle reunion by radio and in the