"Listen to Mah Motor ..."
Men on duty at the short-wave sets of the Coronado National Forest (Ariz.) Network heard voices speaking in heavy Southern accents:
First voice: "We just shot down 37 Jap planes and sank two of their submarines. Now we're a-goin' on to bomb Tokyo. Go ahead."
Second voice: "Better be careful you don' go too fur. Go ahead."
A weather report broke in at this point. An exasperated listener, Lookout Staton Brooks at Mount Wrightson, got the weatherman to hush so the network could hear "a couple of American planes in the...
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