The Radio Gunner

Early in the twentieth century the annual Memorial Day parade was passing through a New England town. The sun shone hotly down till the tarvia of the road felt soft and sticky u...

For some years past a group of powerful men in Constantinople, intriguing diplomatists and financial magnates, had been quietly developing a scheme for world domination. By a pr...

Like a great conflagration, a new wave of idealism swept over the land. To every one was offered the opportunity to come forward and give the best that was in him, and few but a...

Immediately after the return of the commission to Washington, a meeting was held in the Bureau of Engineering, at which those results of the mission to England which had to do w...

The loss of their island bases seriously hampered the enemy in their submarine warfare on the great stream of trans-Atlantic shipping. Submarines were now based on Lisbon and Gi...

During June and July, Evans devoted a liberal share of his attention to the radio-compass problem. He felt that the apparatus was still on trial. A slight lapse might cause this...

In August the preparation of Punta Delgada as a base for the entire fleet was completed, and the fleet arrived. In supreme command was Admiral Johnson, a distinguished figure, a...

Evans now lived aboard the battleship _Delaware_, Admiral Johnson’s flagship; and here the life was different, indeed, from that on the mother-ship of the destroyer flotilla. He...

An earlier chapter has told of the planning of a fleet of net-laying ships to coöperate with chasers on their drifting patrols and to surround at short notice a designated spot...

As the winter wore away, great troop convoys poured a seemingly endless stream of American soldiers into Northern Europe to reinforce the armies there, worn as they were with th...

Throughout these days Evans maintained vigilant and nerve-racking watch over the personnel with a view to detecting any leakage of information by radio which might give the enem...

At Intelligence Headquarters in Punta Delgada there was an expert psychologist, versed in all the latest and most scientific methods of probing a man’s veracity. With a sensitiv...

In 1919 when the N-C 4, the colossal flying boat built for the purpose by the American Navy, made her epoch-making flight across the ocean, there was, among many others, one gre...

At Communication Headquarters of the enemy in Gibraltar there were busy times. Radio experts, decoding experts, and Intelligence officers were especially active in analyzing All...

It was an impressive procession of ships that steamed into Punta Delgada two days after the great battle. As the _Delaware_, at the head of the column, battle-scarred from stem...