Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 86
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to the Japanese.
Jones: Did he ever get caught?
Pryor: No. I don't know whether they ever suspicioned him
or not. I don't know why they didn' t because he
would disconnect it before he gave it back to them.
He'd disconnect the shortwave loop, and then he'd
reconnect it when he was working on it. They always
had a guard standing over him there so that he
couldn't listen to the news.
I had come by a one-volume encyclopedia, and it
had a set of maps in there. So we were able to keep
up pretty much with the war in Europe. It was
reported more than the war in the Pacific in the
stations that we'd be able to hear--New Delhi and a
short-wave station out of Melbourne. Then on very,
very, very rare occasions, he could pick up some
newscast from KGEI in San Francisco. It must of been
on the bounce 300 times--on the skip. But very
seldom could he get KC3EI. Most of it would be out
of New Delhi, and most of it dealt with the news of
the war in Germany. So we was able to keep up with
the war in Germany fairly well. Then we'd follow the
island warfare pretty well, but, of course, there
were no differentiated lines, you know, of combat or86
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/88/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.