Ok so my grandpa died when i was real little. i have his uniform. he was a morse code operator on a ship in the pacific theater and talked about kamikaze a lot. so anyone have an idea of where on the ship he was? I know this was a very important role. I'll probably end up joining the navy to honour him and help this important force. Besides that though, what would be a ships best defense agaisnt kamikaze?
If you knew what ship we could probably get closer to the locations. I beleive the radio shacks were usually in the superstructure. As for best defence against a Kamkaze. Radar directed fighters followed by multi level radar directed AAA. Proximaty rounds helped as well.
I believe most radio rooms were near to the bridge for quicker communication. You might try "Googling" a particular ship or class of ship for 'radio room' and see what you find.
He never talked about it much. i never had the chance and he didn't tell grandma or mom so something bad could have happened maybe. I don't even really know what type of ship he was on. I'm thinking battleship defense against kamikaze. I've seen footage of guns trying to down the planes before they get close but it only seemed to hit 25% of the time.
I would think that as a general rule a person would find that the "radio room" on warships were most often located as close to the bridge as possible. Simply for the reasons stated above, speed of communication relaying to and from the Captain and other in the command chain. If you knew what "type" of ship he was on, that would really nail it down as to positioning, but apparently that information isn't available.
As a direct decendent I think you may be able to get a copy of his service record from the VA. It will have what ships he was on and any awards he recived.
If you goto the second section; "Those Who Served", and open up the second thread on Military Records you will find ways to start your quest.
My sister and I both put in requests for my dad's documents. I'm not sure what we did different but she got more data than I did. Moral read the directions carefully and ask questions if you don't understand things. You'll probably get a quicker if less definitive answer her than from the VA. The ones here may also be somewhat more comprehensable.
he was in the same place i was. radio. and ours like most if not all were on the same level as the bridge. our primary com was diff in Nam than WW2 but we still had to qualify on code. I was up to 65 WPM when I left service in 70. but with a speed key i could send over 100 WPM.
