Harold had been riding his bike that Sunday, December 7,
1941 when he pulled up to the front of his house. His mother ran out on the
porch and said that the Japanese had attacked a place called Pearl Harbor in
the Hawaiian Islands. She said that the radio was saying that America was now
at war.
After high school, Harold joined the Army and was assigned
to the Army Air Forces. This was in April, 1943. After basic training, Harold was
sent to school and eventually became a high speed radio operator. While
stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland Harold was with the 136th Radio
Security Section. There he participated in copying Morse code transmissions of
D-day weather reports. They were then picked up by an AAF colonel who took them
to Washington D.C.
Later in the war, Harold was sent to the European Theater of
Operations (ETO) and North Africa. He spent many months in post war occupation
in Algeria and four months in Germany.
Harold’s reports that his radio duties which were classified
“secret” served him well in his future civilian life.
He was discharged as a Corporal in April 7, 1946. He received
the Good Conduct medal, the American Theater medal as well as the European Theater
medal.
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