radioman
Americannoun
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radiomen
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Navy radioman, died while traveling to France to attend a commemorative event.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Joy MacMillan, one of four siblings who lost their father, the submarine’s chief radioman, said it’s helpful to know the deaths spurred safety improvements.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
A U.S. ship’s radioman foils a poison-gas plot in a foreign port.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2020
His father, Wayne, was a Navy radioman in the Korean War.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019
As the radioman got his message in Navajo code, he would speak it out loud to the pencil-and-pad man, who would write it down.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
Her voice was so loud, the Coast Guard radiomen thought she was very near too.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 30, 2024
Even then, old radiomen kept their eyes on Sarnoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
As chief radiomen, both John Walker and Whitworth had worked as cryptographers on ships engaged in spotting Soviet subs and thus could have been aware of radio traffic reporting any sightings.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the more important matter of sending canned music over the air, the musicians and record men reached an agreement which made radiomen squirm.
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 Ward Moore
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