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Voice of America Station in Saipan
By Ivan Saddler
Copyright 10/2001 SMECC

  Station KSAI was used to broadcast surrender terms to Japan at the end of the war.

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100 KW that was run at 50 KW Western Electric Transmitter at VOA station  at Saipan

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Control console and  transmitter as  KSAI

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There were many  VOA Quonset Huts at KSAI

Due to typhoons in Saipan nets ropes and anchors were used to keep buildings in place (click for larger view)

 

 

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WXLD- KSAI 
Armed Forces Radio Service
APO 244 c/o PM
San Francisco, CaIif.
(printed in the return address space on the  back of the folded 8x11 sheet)

 

Dear Ed,

It's strange how things happen. I've saved this WXLD-KSAI cartoon for 59 years for no known reason.

Last fall my wife, Jean, asked me the location of Batan. I pulled up a map on the internet to show her and nearby were Guam and Saipan. During the following night I dreamed of WXLD and my time there during the winter and spring of 1946. The following day I searched WXLD and came upon your web site and KSAI-WXLD. This led to photographs of the hut where our studios were. I even remembered bringing the anchors for the pending storm. Ivan Saddler's name appeared and I sent some comments to him. You were next in line.

It's nice to have found a likely home for the cartoon. It is being mailed to you folded since this has been its storage condition over the years.

For your information I am and was: Thomas Roth Bryan ETM 21c, USNR, 264-11-58. Funny how a serial number sticks. Still don't remember my Social Security number.

Sincerely yours,

Tom Bryan

 

 

 
 

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