Main Room Display Two Display Cabinets.
First cabinet from left tells the story of the beginning of the radio
intelligence unit training On The Roof of
the Navy Department Building on
Constitution Avenue in Washington. Stories of the capture of radio
intelligence personnel on Guam Island, and the escape of radio intelligence
personnel from Corregidor,
Philippines are provided. Message from the Chief
of Naval Operations to the Commandant Sixteenth Naval
District ordering the
evacuation of radio intelligence personnel from Corregidor is post. Also,
copy of the
original letter from the Chief of Naval Operations dated 1928
requesting volunteers for radio intelligence
work. A copy of a memorandum
from Chief Commissaryman Thompson. Chief Thompson was left on the
island and
captured by the Japanese. After the liberation, his memorandum to Lieutenant
John Litwiler
explained there was a Japanese spy on Corregidor. The Japanese
came aboard the island looking for the
radio intelligence personnel, as they
had on Guam.
Second cabinet provides information of radio intelligence operations during
World War II, i.e. Kwajalein
Island, Johnston Island, Ted Wildman in the Gobi
Desert, Members of the "Happy Valley" (Chungking,
China) and the story of our
last World War II casualty aboard the USS New Mexico. Copy of the Silver
Star
awarded to Markle Tobias Smith for action against the enemy as a
Prisoner of War. The "Corregidor
Plaque" donated to the Command Display by
CWO3 Sidney Burnett, USN (Ret).