Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator

"'Boys, you have done your duty. Now save yourselves'"—page 50

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

TO

Donald Delmar Zeitler

Contents

Chapter		Page
I	How I Learned Wireless	1
II	My First Job as an Operator	18
III	When the “Andalusian” Went Down	36
IV	Catching Seals by Wireless	52
V	My Adventures in the Tropics	68
VI	Working with Marconi	98
VII	A Government Operator at Arlington	129
VIII	Aboard a Warship at Vera Cruz	153
IX	On a Submarine Chaser	170
X	A Signalman on a Submarine	191
XI	With the Field Artillery in France	209
XII	Mustered Out	229

Illustrations

“‘Boys, you have done your duty. Now save yourselves’”	Frontispiece
Facing page
“‘The Republic is sinking and sending out C Q D’s’”	6
We were catching seals by wireless!	54
“‘I whipped out my gun just in time to spot a couple of snipers’”	166
“A bright flash of blue fire shot up through the hole”	188
Our torpedo passed through the raider’s hull and exploded inside	206
“The airplane signaled down to us in code”	220
“But for every one the boches sent we put over two or three”	226

Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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