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"'Boys, you have done your duty. Now save yourselves'"
We were catching seals by wireless!
"'I whipped out my gun just in time to spot a couple of snipers'"
"A bright flash of blue fire shot up through the hole"
Our torpedo passed through the raider's hull and exploded inside
"The airplane signaled down to us in code"
"But for every one the boches sent we put over two or three"
JACK HEATON, WIRELESS OPERATOR
It happened out at sea about five hundred miles as wireless waves fly from Montclair. But perhaps you don't know where Montclair is and maybe you don't particularly care, but as it is my home town I must tell you about it. First, it's in New Jersey a short way from South Orange, where Mr. Edison, the great inventor, has his laboratory, and about twelve miles from New York City. So you see it is pretty favorably located.
Just about half of the fellows in our town at that time were wireless bugs and they ranged anywhere from thirteen to nineteen years of age, though every once in a while a full fledged man would be found with an outfit. Some of the fellows had elaborate equipments with aerials containing upwards of a thousand feet of wire and with them they could send messages to distances of a hundred miles or so and receive them from powerful stations a thousand miles away.
I went over to Bob's one evening after dinner--we always have dinner in the evening in Montclair--and as usual there was Bob sitting at his table listening in. Charlie Langdon, Howard Brice and Johnny James were there and they were all leaning over him looking worried.
"Hello, fellows," I sang out as I opened the door.
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