Front matter
Reading edition
“‘BOYS, YOU HAVE DONE YOUR DUTY. NOW SAVE YOURSELVES’”
JACK HEATON
WIRELESS OPERATOR
BY
A. FREDERICK COLLINS
Author of “Inventing for Boys,” “Handicraft for Boys,” “The Boys’ Book of Submarines,” etc.
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY R. EMMETT OWEN
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1919, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Copyright, 1919, by
The Sprague Publishing Company
All rights reserved
TO
DONALD DELMAR ZEITLER
CONTENTS
I How I Learned Wireless
II My First Job as an Operator
III When the “Andalusian” Went Down
IV Catching Seals by Wireless
V My Adventures in the Tropics
VI Working with Marconi
VII A Government Operator at Arlington
VIII Aboard a Warship at Vera Cruz
IX On a Submarine Chaser
X A Signalman on a Submarine
XI With the Field Artillery in France
XII Mustered Out
ILLUSTRATIONS
“‘Boys, you have done your duty. Now save yourselves’”
“‘The Republic is sinking and sending out C Q D’s’”
We were catching seals by wireless!
“‘I whipped out my gun just in time to spot a couple of snipers’”
“A bright flash of blue fire shot up through the hole”
Our torpedo passed through the raider’s hull and exploded inside
“The airplane signaled down to us in code”
“But for every one the boches sent we put over two or three”
JACK HEATON,
WIRELESS OPERATOR