Father-in-Laws Navy History -- Amphibious Forces of WWII/USNTS Sampson

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Subject: Father-in-Laws Navy History

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Tom Gallagher

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Date Posted: 18:43:53 06/01/11 Wed
In reply to: Steve Glover 's message, "Noroton Heights" on 05:29:35 01/01/10 Fri

My father (Thomas Stanley Gallagher, Jr.) was a WW II naval officer who served as a communications officer in San Francisco from 1942-1944. He was trained as a communications officer in the US NTS facility at Noroton Heights CT. I have his graduation picture of his class, posed in front of a a large wooden dormitory-style building (white wood construction). The graduation date is May 29, 1943. Before he died in 2001, my father and I went back to Noroton Heights to attempt to find the building. The location where my father believed the NTS building was located was occupied by a low, two-story brick series of buildings resembling public housing, but we believe they were veteran retirement housing units.

My father reported that while at NTS he studied Morse code transmission and receiving as well as operation of encryption equipment. Later, while in San Francisco, he was involved in some kind of cypher work which suited his skills since he was a Wharton School-trained statistician and had extensively studied probability and statistical distribution functions while at Wharton. He always modestly reported that he had fought WW II with a pencil and a slide rule. As I child I never understood what he meant by that statement.

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