Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Ed Chlapowski RIP
News item:
Polistra is conducting an old-fashioned telegrapher's funeral ceremony.
Morse '30' signifies end of transmission; the cut wire signifies a circuit no longer grounded. ¶ 2:06 PM
Ed Chlapowski, the man who notified the world that Pearl Harbor was being bombed by the Japanese, has died at 88.
Last year Chlapowski recounted the Dec. 7, 1941 attack that propelled the United States into World War II. He had worked an early watch at the submarine base, had breakfast and had just sat down on his bunk in the barracks when he looked out the window and saw a hangar roof blown away. Then he saw the Japanese planes. Chlapowski ran to the radio room, where he knew the crew was short on Sundays. A supervisor handed him a message, and in Morse code, he sent out word that Pearl Harbor was under attack.
Polistra is conducting an old-fashioned telegrapher's funeral ceremony.
Morse '30' signifies end of transmission; the cut wire signifies a circuit no longer grounded. ¶ 2:06 PM
