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Higgins joined the Navy in 1939 and served as a radioman at Pearl Harbor, a Hawaii naval base on Oahu island, assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes.
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Kara Nelson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes based at the Hawaii naval base when Japanese planes began dropping bombs on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
As DuBose’s radioman, Mr. Grasso was always at the side of his lieutenant — all the way to the moment of the shell blast.
—Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
That same year, the remains of WW II radioman Walter E. Mintus and gunner Otis E. Ingram were identified by the federal government’s POW/MIA accounting agency from the wreckage of a bomber shot down by the Japanese off the coast of Palau in the Western Pacific.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
The following year, while attempting to rescue an army radioman, Dole got caught in a German machine gun attack that cost him a kidney, shattered his right shoulder and damaged his neck and spine, leaving him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
For example, although Campbell and his platoon radioman were practically attached at the hip during his tour, Campbell only knew him by his last name, Murphy, and has not heard from him since the war.
—Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
His two other crew members, a radioman and gunner, died, including one whose parachute did not open.
—al, 4 Nov. 2022
Then, on the main ship nearby, a radioman handed a telegram to Andy Rechnitzer, the director of Project Nekton.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
Kara Nelson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes based at the Hawaii naval base when Japanese planes began dropping bombs on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
As DuBose’s radioman, Mr. Grasso was always at the side of his lieutenant — all the way to the moment of the shell blast.
—Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
That same year, the remains of WW II radioman Walter E. Mintus and gunner Otis E. Ingram were identified by the federal government’s POW/MIA accounting agency from the wreckage of a bomber shot down by the Japanese off the coast of Palau in the Western Pacific.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
The following year, while attempting to rescue an army radioman, Dole got caught in a German machine gun attack that cost him a kidney, shattered his right shoulder and damaged his neck and spine, leaving him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
For example, although Campbell and his platoon radioman were practically attached at the hip during his tour, Campbell only knew him by his last name, Murphy, and has not heard from him since the war.
—Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
His two other crew members, a radioman and gunner, died, including one whose parachute did not open.
—al, 4 Nov. 2022
Then, on the main ship nearby, a radioman handed a telegram to Andy Rechnitzer, the director of Project Nekton.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
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“Radioman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radioman. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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radioman
noun
ra·dio·man
ˈrād-ē-ō-ˌman 
: a radio operator (as on a ship)
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