| Re: MERSIGS school
Posted by Roy Brown  on August 21, 2007, 8:52 am, in reply to "Re: MERSIGS school"
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The Signal School training was NOT the same as the MERSIGS School training. The Mersigs Scool was exclusively devoted to the communicatuins used in Convoys.
The Commodore of the Convoy gave the flag hoist commands or orders by flashing light messages. (This method was used to send "plain language" messages. The flag hoists were signals that were found in the MERSIGS code book. They represented many, many different meanings such as rendezvous and position signals, changes in speed and directions, etc., etc.
I completed the US Navy Signal School at Great Lakes Navl Traing Station and was then to;d I was in the Armed Guard and was sent immediately to Noroton Heights, Conn. for the MERSIGS School.
After completing that 4-week course we were sent to the AG Center in Brooklyn, NY to await out ship assignments.
Mine was a Liberty in Norfolk, VA, the SS John Dickinson. Another Signalman and I were sent in a Navy truck to the dock where we found a long line of Infantrymen boarding the John Dickinson.
We then began to feel like there WAS a WAR on and we were headed for it! (And Boy, were we right)!
Roy Brown
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