"I volunteered to
drive officers to a party off base. One party
was in Lilihia near Kailua with an officer of the 15th
Signal Radar Repair Unit who had just arrived from
stateside. He found that I had radar training
and quickly assigned me to his six man unit." - John
Moriarty |
"I was not involved
with moving the guns or turret which was done by
civilian contractors. "I was told that the loads were lifted off the Arizona using floating cranes and barged around Mokapu Point where mobile cranes lifted the parts onto flat bed trailers. "For the turret, they welded two trailers together, pulling with two diesels and pushing with two bull dozers to reach the end of the road. "Then a dual track inclined railway was built to get to the barbette. " "All this was finished before we arrived to install the SCR 268 or 270 long range radar set." - John Moriarty |
A Short History of
John Moriarty's WWII Service by John Moriarty |
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John Moriarty |
Telephone/cable crew (John is 2nd from right) |
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Pineapple train in Honolulu | Autocar tractor in Honolulu |
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Lineman at Fort Eustis, Virginia | LEFT TO RIGHT: Col. George Eckert, Col. Holly Markle, Col. John Moriarty | John's uniform. |
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Hughes Aircraft FlightTest Division Data
Reduction Lab
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John with army truck similar to earlier picture in Honolulu. |
Radio
News:
From the collection of Camp Crowder trainee, the late John Moriarty courtesy of his daughter Patricia Nagel. Donated to the Virginai Holocaust Museum in Richmond. 15th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit Unofficial Archive of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Northwest Europe in WWII |
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