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Post by batteryboy on Jul 4, 2012 22:19:00 GMT 8
Irving Strobing, Radio Operator on Corregidor, Dies at 77 By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr Published: July 24, 1997 Irving Strobing, the Brooklyn-born Army radio operator who stirred the pulse of a country by tapping out the last brave messages of horror, humor and hope before the surrender of the Philippines in World War II, died on July 8 at a veterans hospital in Durham, N.C. He was 77 and had sent the last radio transmissions before the fall of Corregidor on May 6, 1942. His family said the cause was cancer. ..... read more www.nytimes.com/1997/07/24/nyregion/irving-strobing-radio-operator-on-corregidor-dies-at-77.html?src=pmRecording of his last transmission is available somewhere in the web.
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Post by pdh54 on Jul 4, 2012 23:17:16 GMT 8
Here is a link to the transmission
It is so sad
Patty
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Post by okla on Jul 5, 2012 1:34:02 GMT 8
Hey Battery/Patty...Thanks for posting. I remember that day like it was only yesterday, even tho I was just short of my 10th birthday. I noticed that the good Corporal (Sergeant) was discharged in 1949. He, evidently, re-enlisted for another hitch, before leaving the Army, maybe due to deteriorating health due to being a POW of the Emperior. Hearing those "dahs and dits" is certainly "creepy", even this many years later. Bleak times, they were, but better days were ahead. Midway was just over the horizon. Cheers and thanks again for posting.
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