radioman
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Broyles’ story onscreen is intercut with that of his more radical and insubordinate radioman, Jeff Hiers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Navy radioman, died while traveling to France to attend a commemorative event.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 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.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
They were coming fast, and Vollie was near enough the command post to hear a radioman cranking the phone and calling out coördinates.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
One night a lieutenant named Jim Kent recollected how the former radioman had taken an interest in a dead Japanese boy with his pants turned inside out around his muddy ankles.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Her voice was so loud, the Coast Guard radiomen thought she was very near too.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 30, 2024
The thought of all this bad publicity was enough to fill the dreams of radiomen with 17 kinds of screams.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harlemites chuckled even more last week when, taking a hint from Broadway columnists, radiomen hastily demanded that Hold Tight's, lyrics be bowdlerized.
From Time Magazine Archive
In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters willing to look & listen from 6 to 10 p.m.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Manipulated once more by my tyrant, I was stationed, like other reporters and radiomen, in a captive balloon.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
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