Japanese Morse Code

[jacklee]

anyone out there who spent their wartime service listening to the japanese broadcasts in their weird morse?
I was navy but all the other services were doing the same.
Reckon I could still read it now - well maybe not too fast!
jacklee

[Zacs-Master]

You might like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yza6bjQ2_mc&sns=em

[jacklee]

Cheers Zacs-Master. Enjoyed the video - happy memories of HMS Anderson and Warrant-Tel Fincham.
Among other things I spent time on Powder island DF in Trincomalee. What a dump - remember the night someone set the ramshackle dockyard canteen alight ( not jolly jack !)
Was there when HMS Valiant was in a floating dock which was sinking!!
Cheers
jacklee

[arwyn]

jacklee I bet you have loads of amazing stories to tell.. Have you found any forums where people with similar stories write them for others to read? I don't know anyone your age who can use the internet. My first father in law is 84 ish and wont even try ha ha..

[jacklee]

Hi Arwyn.
Been using acomputer for some years - but not highly technical.
i could tell you a tale or two about the changes I've seen - not all for the better.
I remember as a youngster the General Strike - with loads of men out of work for years.
We lived in Newcastle and were all hard up - but folk used to share what they had and we knew not to crave for what we simply couldn't have.
How about having to stay off school while my Mum took my only shoes to the cobbler! Are there any cobblers left?
Only took up Answerbank again recently as my dear wife now in a nursing home and I have gone from being a full-time carer to a bloke with time on his hands and feeling lonely.
Nice to hear from you, Arwyn
Goodnight
jacklee

[society]

Jacklee, I'll be keeping a close eye on your threads/post. :)

I bet you have lots of interesting tales to tell. I love to listen to the stories the older generation has to offer. I find people of your generation to be wise, insightful and just full of plain good ole knowledge.

Are you Japanese or Asian?

[arwyn]

Jacklee, I'm sorry to hear about your Wife I can understand how lonley it must be for you. My Family are from Denton burn, my mam's older sibblings are in their 80's. I love to hear their stories of how the older ones got married and their families also lived in my Grandparents house..
Chat to you again, Goodnight..

[Clanad]

jacklee, may I say (as a Yank) how greatly appreciated you and your generation are over here. We're losing WWII vets at a rate of about 1,200 a day. The day will come when I won't be able to have the long conversations with men and women who made my way of life possible.

It's one thing to look back on all the events with the surety of knowing the outcome... as opposed to those, like yourself, that served and endured without knowing from day to day what would happen.

I've three living uncles (all brothers) that served in the South Pacific Theatre... one was in the U.S. Army, one was a Marine and the youngest was a Seabee... Naval Construction Regiment (Construimus, Batuimus -- "We Build, We Fight."
In early-mid 1944, they all were the island of Saipan (Battle of the Marianas) and actually met up. I thoroughly enjoyed their stories, but their grandchildren (and great-grandchildren) don't seem to have a respect for the tremedous history right at their hands... pity.

At any rate... thank you!

[Zacs-Master]

Hi jack, glad you liked the video. You'll find answerbank a great time filler, I'm sure.