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).