Jim and Joe at Old Dominion University Joe at Bluefield College
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After completing studies at Bluefield College, which was then only a two-year Junior College, Joe transferred to finish at Old Dominion University (which was then called Old Dominion College). His brother Jim completed some of his studies at Virginia Tech, then transferred to Old Dominion. He finished his degree at American University.
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Joe at Old Dominion University:
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Bill Mitchell, pictured, was Chief Justice, Honor Court
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Jim Hughes named as Student Government Attorney General:
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Joe was elected to Sigma Beta Tau honorary leadership fraternity:
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Professor Sherwood received his Bachelor of Science from William and Mary and a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago. He studied in the Adler Planetarium and worked with the state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss planetarium instrument. The Zeiss was built in Germany and still has the finest optics in the world for projecting stars and planets on a full-dome planetarium theater sky.
Max Adler had traveled to Germany in 1928, and was so impressed by the modern planetarium that he donated funds to construct the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. He also purchased a collection of antique scientific instruments from the A.W. Mensing estate, Amsterdam. The Zeiss instrument was placed in the Adler Planetarium and was dedicated on Adler's birthday, May 12, 1930. Dr. Phillip Fox, a well-known professor of astronomy at Northwestern University, was appointed the Planetarium's first director.
The astrophysics program at the University of Chicago began with the building of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, where the entire department was located. By the mid-sixties it had become clear that ties to the intellectual community on campus need to be strengthened, and there was a shift of the center of mass from Wisconsin to Chicago. All of the academic programs are now on campus. Yerkes still provides laboratory facilities, contains the bulk of the library astronomy holdings, and offers access to research telescopes and instruments for prototyping and instruction.
I feel I was very fortunate to study under Professor Sherwood, and later worked as Asst. Planetarium Director at Fork Union Military Academy, which had a Spitz A-4 instrument, which was similar to the A-3 installed in the Old Dominion University planetarium.
My mother Katharine Read Hughes, had also studied Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma, and on one trip to Norman, Oklahoma, where her parents lived, she arranged for us to go to the University's observatory one evening, meet the professor of Astronomy, and view the stars through their telescope.
While in junior and senior high school, Dad would use some of his vacation time and take our family on a trip to Chapel Hill, N.C. to visit the Morehead Planetarium. They had a Zeiss planetarium instrument of very high quality. Here are some pictures of that planetarium, the large sundial in the courtyard, and the observatory:
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Notice the Scripture verse over the entrance to the Morehead Planetarium theater:
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After one planetarium program at Morehead, I asked the man at the console how he could remember where all the dials, buttons and switches were in the dark. He replied that it was like riding a bicycle; that once you learned you didn't forget. Here are some good pictures inside the Morehead Planetarium and the console:
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Pictures of Adler Planetarium, Chicago University and the Zeiss instrument, where Professor Sherwood studied:
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A Carl Zeiss Planetarium instrument is THE "gold standard" of planetarium projectors. Schools and colleges which could not afford a Zeiss would purchase the next best made, the Spitz, made in the United States. Here is a scene from one such planetarium in Germany illustrating the star formations in their Greek outlines:
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Anthony Jenzano making an adjustment on the Morehead Planetarium Zeiss instrument:
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Professor Sherwood also spent time studying at the Yerkes Observatory, which was operated by the University of Chicago. It was the birthplace of Astrophysics.
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Here is some information about
Professor Sherwood:
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Joe also studied Planetarium operation under Professor Sherwood. Here are some scenes from the Pretlow Planetarium, which was located beside the Chemistry Building:
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The Chemistry Building, with the Pretlow Planetarium seen on the left side toward the back:
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Professor Sherwood adjusts the Spitz A-3 instrument:
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Next 2 photos are of the Astronomy lab instructors Joe had, lecturing in the Planetarium. In the second photo, you can see part of the control panel in the foreground:
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This was the Spitz A-3 instrument we trained on:
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The Spitz dome was excellent in that there were no seams visible on which the stars were projected.
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Spitz A3P Operator's Manual:
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Advanced course Astronomy students who were proficient in that area of Geophysical Science, and, having the permission of the professor, would be allowed to enroll in the Planetarium Operation course. The students were required to produce several programs to be graded by Professor Sherwood. Some I developed with classical music as background to the stars, planets, etc., being projected on the dome. Here are some examples:
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Some music I used was from Gustav Holst's "The Planets" Suite. One piece was used for a Sunrise, another for a Sunset, and other music for transitions. In the following examples, I use here the music played by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
In the first example, I used Jupiter for a Sunrise sequence:
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I also used "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" for a Sunrise sequence. Written by Richard Strauss, it was used in the film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." In this sequence, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs:
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For transitions between various parts of a planetarium program, I used "Mars":
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A good piece of music from "The Planets" was Venus for a Sunset sequence:
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"Sorcerer's Apprentice" was another good classical piece of music used to set the mood for several planet and star sequences:
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The Spitz A-1 was the first planetarium instrument their company produced:
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Mr. Armand Spitz who invented the Spitz Planetarium, gave two lectures that were recorded in the Fort Worth, Texas planetarium utilizing the A-1 instrument:
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The Spitz company also produced a home model to use:
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Outline of Constellations in night time sky:
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Astrology is NOT Astronomy. Professor Sherwood was a Christian and did NOT believe in the pagan practice of Astrology. The Constellations used in Astronomy were helpful in identifying the shapes and outlines of stars in the sky. The people who practice Astrology try to interpret an individual's birth month to predict events....which is not Biblical.
There are other constellations in the sky which are lesser known and their names help students identify their location ("sky address"). These are also helpful because it gives the observer the location of 1st and 2nd magnitude stars which can be found more easily.
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“Tonight’s
Sky” is a video series of constellations you can observe in the night sky.
The
series is courtesy of and produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute,
home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s
Universe of Learning.
This product is based on work supported by NASA under award numbers NNX16AC65A
to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with
Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
and Sonoma State University. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do
not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
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Rotation of Constellations and Stars: 1 day and 1 night:
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Planets showing rotation and their angle of axis:
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Six planets with their moons in orbit:
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While doing a minor in Art History, I studied the pyramids of Egypt, and one in particular stood out: the Great Pyramid of Cheops. (On the webpage "CH Hughes-Part 2" you can see a reference to it concerning the 11th Battalion AIF soldiers who all sat or stood on the outside of this particular pyramid).
In the Astronomy lecture and lab science course, we studied Precession. In the late 1960s, the pop song, "Age of Aquarius" was popular and it alluded to the fact that Precession was moving our solar system into a new age, that of Aquarius. The details are given below about what Precession is and why the Earth was moving or wobbling on its axis, and a new North Star would be in the offing.
This is the origin of the "Age of Aquarius" celebrated in the musical Hair: a period when, according to astrological mysticism and related hokum there will be unusual harmony and understanding in the world. Well, that kind of harmony is unlikely to come because of something as irrelevant as the position of the vernal equinox with respect to the constellations of the Zodiac.
The Cheops pyramid and how it was built proves scientifically why Precession operates in our solar system, and in particular, the Earth. When it was built, the Earth had a different North Star; Thuban. The data below will explain how and why this is true.
The first article by Dr. Percival Lowell gets to the heart of the matter:
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The Lowell article appeared in Popular Science Monthly:
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GEOMETRIC HYPOTHESIS OF THE SECTIONAL ELEVATION OF THE GREAT PYRAMID:
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PASSAGEWAYS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID:
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THE GREAT PYRAMID OBSERVATORY:
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LONGITUDINAL SECTIONS OF THE GRAND GALLERY:
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VERTICAL SECTION OF THE GRAND GALLERY:
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Who was Percival Lowell is answered in the following 3 part video series:
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Joe would later use his Astronomy and Planetarium skills in his first teaching position at Fork Union Military Academy as Assistant Planetarium Director. At the time, he was a member of the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society and International Planetarium Society.
The planetarium housed a Spitz A-4 Instrument.
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JOE AND HIS BROTHER JIM VISIT FORK UNION:
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JOE AT FORK UNION CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEBPAGE: "JOE AT FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY".
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If an institution could not afford a Zeiss planetarium instrument, the next best was the Spitz planetarium. It had high grade optics, much better than other brands; and the dome was constructed without any seams showing during a presentation.
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Some of Joe's Professors at Old Dominion University:
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More information about Dr. Jones:
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Dr. Walters was my Professor of Secondary Education. (next photo). He would tell the class, "Know your subject and teach it." In other words, learn your subject material; don't lecture from notes to the students. You should know your subject well enough; be prepared enough; able to walk in a classroom and teach your subject area from memory.
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Professor Parker Leslie was such an outstanding teacher, that many students from the School of Education came over to the Fine Arts Building to observe his methodology. Here is a news article about him:
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(Jim was so exceptional in the field of science and mathematics, that he took an entire year of Organic Chemistry in one summer at Old Dominion University and made an "A").
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While at ODU, Jim and Joe
both received "bids" to join Pi Kappa Phi; Joe also received one to
Delta Sigma Phi. Jim decided on Pi Kappa Phi, and Joe, Delta Sigma Phi. My Big Brother was Jeff Hurwitz. Initiated: Feb 4, 1970.
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Our Faculty Sponsor was Bob Wunderlin:
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Joe played on the Delta Sig volleyball team.
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At ODU, Jim headed a committee to write an updated Honor Council booklet for student-wide distribution.
While at ODU, Jim collaborated with Joe to write "The Fraternities at ODU." Here is a copy of the 1969 supplement:
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Jim attended VPI, transferred to
ODU, then finished at American University while serving in the Virginia
State Police in Northern Virginia.
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Joe's graduation program:
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Bob Galbraith stopped by to visit. He graduated with Joe in the School of Education (see graduation list above).
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Joe attended Bluefield College when it was a Junior College (2-year school), then transferred to Old Dominion College (which later became Old Dominion University) for his undergraduate degree. He was later admitted to the Old Dominion University
Graduate School (History), and did additional study at:
Virginia Commonwealth
University, University of Richmond Continuing Education, the University of
Richmond Graduate School (Education),
and University of North
Carolina (Professional and Continuing Education).
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While at the University of Richmond Graduate School, Joe worked on a thesis dealing with Pre-Pearl Harbor Intelligence.
His mentor professor told him that he was only one of five graduate students that, at that time, had read the most primary/secondary sources dealing with Pearl Harbor. He was able to pinpoint and identify evidence that F.D.R. and his senior military officers, and Churchill, had prior knowledge of the pending attack on Pearl Harbor. In research at the F.D.R. library, he found that F.D.R. had been bugging his own oval office with a wire-tap; a microphone hidden in his desk lamp (pre-Nixon) before it was discovered by other historians.
He corresponded with the late John Toland, who was one of the first historians to uncover evidence of prior knowledge of the attack. He was able to see through much "fluff" generated in books thru the late 1980s, and still going on today, to some extent, by those who wish to ignore what is known in primary sources about the hard evidence of what F.D.R. and his senior military staff knew before the bombs started dropping, even as early as late November 1941.
While in the Army on active duty, Joe had the opportunity to meet and visit with Admiral Kimmel's grandson Thomas.
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On December 3 and 6, 1941, a Dutch intelligence naval attache officer was shown a map of the
Pacific area by U.S. Naval personnel in Washington, which pin-pointed
the Japanese carrier force moving toward Hawaii.
Admiral Johan Ranneft:
Dutch
admiral recalled being shown location of Japanese fleet before it attacked
Pearl Harbor
From
UPI News, by Bruce Nichols
HOUSTON
-- Adm. Johan Ranneft sometimes told of visiting the Navy Department in
Washington the day before the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and being
shown the location of a Japanese fleet near Hawaii.
Ranneft, who died Jan. 20 at the age of 95, was a captain in
the Netherlands Navy at the time and was serving as the Dutch naval attache in
Washington.
'Apparently
he was standing around with some naval officers and they had the position of
the Japanese fleet located on a map north of Pearl Harbor,' Ranneft's son,
Theodore, said in an interview.
'He said, 'What's the purpose of these ships being there?'
And the people made non-committal comments. Obviously at the time they hadn't
really considered that these ships might attack Pearl Harbor. This is more or
less the story I recall. I just don't know how significant it is.'
Admiral Ranneft's story is one of the main pieces of
evidence cited by historian John Toland in his forthcoming book 'Infamy: Pearl
Harbor and its Aftermath,' a account of interlocking events designed to show
that Washington knew of the impending attack but did nothing about it.
In the book, to be published by Doubleday April 23, Toland
says the presence of the Japanese fleet was never reported to U.S. commanders
in Hawaii. He theorizes that President Franklin Roosevelt withheld the
information to assure a surprise attack and thereby generate popular support
for U.S. entry into World War II.
Toland interviewed Ranneft before his death and recovered in
Holland the admiral's official diary, in which he noted that U.S. naval
intelligence officers showed him the map location of the Japanese fleet on Dec.
2 and again on Dec. 6, the eve of the attack when the ships were reported to be
300 miles northwest of Hawaii.
In his official diary, Ranneft wrote on Dec. 2:
'Conference at Navy Department. ONI (Office of Naval
Intelligence). They show me on map the position of two Japanese carriers
(actually, there were six, plus supporting ships). They left Japan on easterly
course.'
On Dec. 6, he wrote:
'I myself do not think about it because I believe that
everyone in Honolulu is 100 percent on the alert, just as everyone here at ONI
is.'
The younger Ranneft said that, the way his father told the
story, neither he nor the American intelligence officers attached great
significance to the nearness of the Japanese fleet to Hawaii.
'I don't think he at the time thought they were going to
bomb Pearl Harbor,' Ranneft said. 'That seemed such a wild sort of thought,
although there was tension, of course.
Ranneft said he does not think his father told him the story
until some time after the war. 'It was just a story he sometimes told later
on,' Ranneft said. 'I don't remember really when I first heard it. I couldn't
give you a date.'
Ranneft does not know why it took historians so long to take
an interest in his father. He said his father did not particularly keep the
story to himself.
'I wouldn't say that he was all that garrulous,' Ranneft
said. 'He didn't make any effort to go to the newspapers and say look here,
I've got something that really might interest you.'
However, Ranneft said his father had an interesting life and
had a lot of stories to tell his friends. The possibility that Pearl Harbor was
not really a surprise to American officials was only one.
Johan Ranneft was born in Indonesia, raised in Holland,
served in the Dutch Navy and then retired on a rear admiral's pension in 1947
to traveling and the hobby of archeology. He died in Houston of heart failure
following surgery to repair a broken hip.
The son, a consulting geologist, said his father may have
had access to such confidential information at the Navy Department because the Dutch
were supplying intelligence from Indonesia, then the Netherlands East Indies.
Ranneft said his father and the Americans were quite
friendly and his father received a special citation from the Navy in 1946 for
helping obtain from the Swedish government the design of the 40mm Bofors
automatic anticraft gun, which was used extensively by the Navy and Army during
World War II.
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British and Australian intelligence broke the Japanese Naval code (known to them as
"Code D" and to the British and Americans, as the "5 Number Code" or
"JN-25") as early as 1939. Warnings to the U.S. were ignored in
Washington.
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Elliott
R. Thorpe, a retired Army brigadier general who was chief of
counterintelligence under Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur and who delivered an
unheeded warning about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thorpe was a military attaché in
Dutch-controlled Java in December, 1941, when the Dutch broke a Japanese
diplomatic code. One of the intercepted messages referred to planned Japanese
attacks on Hawaii, the Philippines and Thailand. Informed of the message by a Dutch general,
Thorpe immediately cabled the information to Washington. But he found that his
warning was not taken seriously. A week later, the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor.
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From East Wind, Rain: The Intimate Account of an
Intelligence Officer in the Pacific 1939-49 by Elliott R. Thorpe, Brigadier
General U.S.A (Ret.), pp. 51-54.
I suppose the most important thing I ever did as an army
intelligence officer was to notify Washington of the forthcoming attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Prior to my hasty departure from Java, I burned my codes and
records as well as several thousand dollars in American currency that had been
sent to me for the Philippine relief project. Without my records, I must write
the following with such assistance as I have been able to get from the records
of the Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigation. Of the four messages I sent
relating to the forthcoming Japanese attack, I find only one in detail in the
record and that as I recall was the one sent December 5 (December 4, U.S.
time). After the fourth message, I was directed by the War Department to send
no more on the subject. This may have been because the War Department felt my
dispatches might reach the wrong hands or for some other reason they considered
adequate. In any event I sent no more of the Japanese intercepts being given me
by the Dutch.
The Dutch army had in Java some of the world's best
cryptanalysts. They had broken the official Japanese code and were sitting day
after day recording the Japanese messages going in all directions over the
Pacific as the preparations for the war in that area went on. Some of these
dispatches merely moved Japanese units from one place to another, others gave
directions to embassies and consulates as to their roles in the forthcoming
struggle. Put together they gave a definite picture of what was about to
happen.
Very early in December about two o'clock one afternoon, General
Ter Poorten, commander in chief of the Dutch army, came to my office in a
building ajacent to the D.V.O. This was most unusual, for it was customary that
when the army chief wanted to talk with any of the foreign attaches he would
send a request that they come to his office. Ter Poorten, whose wife had been
captured by the Germans in Holland, lived alone and I was without my family, so
we saw a good deal of each other at the club where we frequently ate or other
such places. But during duty hours protocol was carfully observed.
As the general came into my office, after greeting me, he turned
to my secretary and asked her to leave the room. When she had gone he locked
the door, sat down, and said to me, "I have something here I believe of
great importance to your government." He then unfolded a paper he was
carrying and handed it to me. It was an intercept of a message from Tokyo to
the Japanese Ambassador in Bangkok who was to direct the military action in
that area.
The intercepted dispatch was a lengthy one and told of the
upcoming attack on Hawaii, the Philippines, Malaya and Thailand. As these
attacks were to take place simultaneously it would be necessary to have all
fleets in the proper position when the attack signal was given. Weather at sea
could not be completely predicted so it would be necessary to give the
"go" signal from Tokyo. This would be given in the form of a weather
broadcast over Radio Tokyo that would reach all involved in the vast effort at
the same time. Hence this became known as the "Winds" message in the
discussions that have followed the Pearl Harbor disaster.
The go signal for attack on the United States was "East
Wind, Rain."
(After we took over in Japan following the surrender, I had an
investigation made of the "Winds" message in an attempt to find out
if was really used as the go signal. At that time the Japanese were eager to
please and would say anything they thought you wanted said. One Radio Tokyo
broadcaster definitely stated he gave out the "Winds" message, but
the truth of the matter will probably never be known.)
After I had read the contents of the message I realized its
importance. I said to him, "Sir, this is so important that with your
permission I will go at once to Batavia and inform our senior State Department
representative of it and then send it directly to Washington tonight." He
agreed to this and I left at once. I found the afternoon plane to Batavia had
already gone, so I took the three o'clock train arriving in Batavia about six
thirty in the evening. Our consulate general had closed for the night, and I
proceeded to Hotel Des Indes where both our consul general and senior naval
attache lived.
I showed these two the information given me by General Ter
Pooten. Commander Paul Slausson (later killed at Bougainville) agreed I had
something of great importance. Our consul general, Dr. Walter Foote, belittled
the matter and suggested I take no immediate action. However, I felt it was a
matter of urgency and said I was sending it on to Washington at once.
As I had left my code books locked in the my safe in Bandung, I
asked Slausson if I might use his code which was at hand to transmit my
message. He agreed and we went to the consulate where his code was kept. It
took two or three hours to encode the message and it was nearly midnight when
we had completed the job. The main post office in Batavia handled the
transmission of overseas messages. I found the doors locked, but by pounding on
a back door got a member of the night staff to open up. I explained I had a
message of great urgency and he agreed to put it on the cable at once. I
wanted it to go by cable rather than wireless for at that time we knew the
cable had not been tapped by the Japs who were probably monitoring all wireless
messages just as the Dutch were doing.
As I was using a naval code my message had to go to the War
Department through navy communications center in Washington so that both the
navy and the army became aware of the message as it was transmitted. Its
receipt was acknowledged.
I have already mentioned that the consul general took a
jaundiced view of my belief I had something of genuine importance. The next
morning after I had dispatched the intercepted Jap message, I called on the
consul general before returning to my station in Bandung. We talked over the
matter of the dispatch I had sent and he volunteered to show me a message he had
sent the State Department that morning. In it he had told the State Department
I had shown him my information the previous evening and that he viewed it as
being of uncertain origina and little value and added in effect that I was a
new boy at school and when I was older I'd be wiser. Later the old boy was to
send a few dispatches of his own that were unique, to say the least. This
kindly old man was to cause real concern later in Australia.
As the days went by the Dutch crytanalysts came up with more intercepts
bearing out the first one given me. I continued to read these revealing
messages and watched the picture develop, but sent no more to our War
Department as ordered.
About this time an American undercover gent showed up in Bandung
with all the details of the Japanese fortifications and garrisons on Saipan and
Tinian. I thought he had something of real importance, but advised him to take
it in person to the U.S. army headquarters in Manila where he would probably
get a better reception than I was getting from the Munitions Building [War
Department] in Washington....
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Don C. Smith, Director of War Service for the American Red Cross.
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On November 29th, Secretary of State Cordell
Hull secretly met with freelance newspaper writer Joseph Leib (seen in photo below). Leib had
formerly held several posts in the Roosevelt administration. Hull knew him and
felt he was one newsman he could trust. The secretary of state handed him
copies of some of the Tokyo intercepts concerning Pearl Harbor. He said the
Japanese were planning to strike the base and that FDR planned to let it
happen…
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Explosive Truth about Pearl Harbor. The Story the rest of the Media won't Tell. -Joseph Leib
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AN ARTICLE BY MICHAEL T. GRIFFITH:
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The following three films will give you up-to-date information, much of which Joe dealt with during his graduate studies at University of Richmond:
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From the BBC, a film now in public domain: "Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor":
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"Pearl Harbor: The New Evidence":
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More evidence from a BBC short film:
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A film taken by the Japanese of a mock attack on Pearl Harbor, 1940:
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Japanese model of Pearl
Harbor, showing ships located as they were during the 7 December 1941 attack.
This model was constructed after the attack for use in making a motion picture:
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Japanese Spy in Pearl Harbor gives his testimony:
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Doug Horne has contributed some of the newest information concerning Pearl Harbor. He has written a two volume set which details the run up to the attack on Hawaii.
Horne was interviewed on the Midnight Writer's radio program and summarized his research. The second half is especially insightful, as Horne reveals hard evidence that was in plain sight for years after the war that proved F.D.R. knew ahead of time about the coming attack on Pearl Harbor:
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Doug Horne is interviewed by Len Osanic on Black Op Radio:
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Document Further Validates Horne’s Back-Door-To-War
Thesis Regarding FDR and Pearl Harbor:
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Captain Eric Nave, RAN also established the fact that the Winds Execute Message was sent.
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Unidentified attaches of
the Japanese consulate began burning papers, ledgers and other records shortly
after Japan went to war against the U.S., on December 7, 1941, in New Orleans,
Louisiana. Police later stopped the fire after most of the papers had been
destroyed:
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It is a known fact that the U.S. Army and Navy both had code breaking units at work on the Japanese messages, and that neither branch got along with the other. In fact, they did not share their information and were suspicious of the information being produced by the British and Australians. This will become evident in the next two films.
Commander Alastair Cooper & his
expert panel of Craig Collie, Vice Admiral Peter Jones, Dr Ian Pfennigwerth
& Dr Joe Straczek analyse the code breaking efforts of the RAN during World
War II.
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Code
Breaking & the RAN in World War II - Part 1:
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Code Breaking & the RAN
in World War II - Part 2:
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SS Lurline's Radio Operator Leslie E. Grogan, heard signals from the approaching Japanese task force.
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The unheeded radar warning from
Opana Point
by Joseph Lockard and George Elliott
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Joe Lockard inside radar van:
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Joe Lockard's notes, December 7th:
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Where was General Marshall on the morning of December 7th ?
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The Battle of Niihau, filmed at the Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
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From "House of History" youtube, is this excellent history of Niihau and the 1941 battle:
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From the series, "Dangerous Missions," now in public domain, comes the story of the Battle of Taranto, Italy, which was the prelude to Pearl Harbor:
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General MacArthur was given warning before the Philippines was attacked but did nothing, and allowed the attack to happen.
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Successive
Australian governments have consistently refused to admit Australia ever
intercepted diplomatic communications, even in war-time. Now a new book by ANU
College of Asia and the Pacific academics Professor Desmond Ball and Dr Keiko
Tamura lifts the lid on the most secret of the Allied code-breaking
organisations in Australia during World War II. In this video Ball and Tamura
discuss the work of D Special Section, and their new book about the group,
Breaking Japanese Diplomatic Codes.
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David Sissons, who worked in D Special Section of Australian Code Breakers:
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Also, recommended reading:
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Craig Collie is interviewed by Australia ABC news:
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TWO BRITISH AVIATION EXPERTS PASSED SECRETS TO THE JAPANESE AS EARLY AS 1920.
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Sempill and some of the British officers who were originally allowed to go on a goodwill tour to Japan; before Sempill and Rutland turned to spying:
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Sempill with Japanese Imperial Japanese Naval Officers:
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Sempill received the Order of the Rising Sun:
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Frederick J. Rutland, jailed in England as a spy:
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The following film series produced by BBC, and now in public domain, tells the story of how two British aviation experts instructed the Japanese as early as 1920, on how to build aircraft carriers and the planes to use on them.
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One British author wrote in the 1920s concerning the rise of the Japanese navy and naval strategy in the Pacific. That man was Hector C. Bywater.
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The Daily Mail, UK has released information, April 4, 2022, concerning the new bombshell BBC4 documentary which aired Sunday night: Edward VIII: Britain's Traitor King—explosive new documentary explores how the Queen’s 'favorite uncle' betrayed Britain for the Nazis.
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It's been known for some years that Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry a divorced woman, was cozy with Germany and Hitler. BUT, not to the extent now revealed, in this presentation, placed in public domain and available here:
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Even Sky News Australia carried a 'front page' story concerning this bombshell news:
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Joe attended Bluefield Junior College before transferring to Old Dominion University
Pictures from
Bluefield College, 1966-1968
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Photo taken next to men's dorm main entrance (on left) looking across the campus to chapel (center) and library (on right side).
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On Thursday nights starting in September 1966, the men's dorm lobby was packed; every seat taken facing the large console color TV set. It's time for the premier of Star Trek, which aired every week from 1966-1969. If you didn't arrive early, you had to bring your own seat or sit on the floor.
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The TV is warmed up and ready to go......
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The postcard photo below was taken from across the highway, probably next to the Leatherwood Dairy farm. Further back are caves which some of us went exploring:
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L-R: Joe, Dr. Harmon, President of Bluefield College, and Vernon Mt.Castle, my first roommate:
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Vernon Mt.Castle was born 1947, and graduated from Oak Hill Academy, Mouth-of-Wilson, VA, another of our Baptist schools. He later joined the U.S. Navy, then was married and lives in Virginia.
His sister, Kay, who graduated from Meredith College in N.C., was married to Hank Scheele, in South Norfolk Baptist Church by my father, Rev. Frank Hughes, Jr., October 1964. Kay was also organist at South Norfolk Baptist for awhile before her marriage. Hank worked for the U.S. Navy.
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Thomas Edward "TEM" Marshall went on to study at University of Richmond:
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Charlie Hankins was a Tazewell High School graduate:
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Update: Bobby Davis Rickman went on to attend University of Richmond, seen in photo below:
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Correction to above photo: should be Frank Fishburne.
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In May 1967, Mr. Joe Wray directed the musical production of "Camelot."
Joe was the light designer for the production, seen at the controls for the stage lights:
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Wray Dudley assisted Joe with the Camelot production:
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Joe occasionally was asked to play the Baldwin organ in the chapel. (Sometimes these electric organs were called "squalling Baldwins"). I once made the mistake of sending all the sound to the balcony speaker; got plenty of complaints from the Sophomores who sat there! Here is a copy of the Bluefield College "Alma Mater":
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The Bluefield College "Alma Mater" is sung by the college Chamber Singers, 2021:
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Significant Lecture by Lisa Sergio,
November 1966,
Bluefield College:
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Lisa Sergio, a pioneer radio news
broadcaster in Mussolini's Italy who became a dedicated anti-Fascist and a news
commentator for WQXR and other American radio stations, died of a heart attack
Thursday at her home in Washington. She was 84 years old.
Miss Sergio, a slender, fiery
contralto once known as ''the Golden Voice of Rome,'' also translated the
dictator's blustering speeches into English and French almost simultaneously on
the air until her modifications of propaganda commentaries prompted her
dismissal from Rome radio.
Faced with arrest and internment in
1937, she was smuggled aboard a trans-Atlantic liner by a family friend,
Guglielmo Marconi, the radio developer. She settled in New York City, where she
soon became a guest observer for NBC radio and the host for broadcasts
including Metropolitan Opera performances and Berkshire music festivals.
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Now in public Domain, the book, Mussolini's Microphone, had a chapter about Ms. Sergio:
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Additional lectures by Lisa Sergio at Bluefield College are on the webpage "Sermons from South Norfolk: AUDIO" in the section concerning Jim and Joe Hughes.
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