Quotes About Signalman

Doggie Rayl was a perfectionist, and a man lucky to be alive to make the trip to the North Pole. Rayl was a signalman aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was sleeping topside to escape the heat below when the Japanese attacked. The explosions blew him overboard, and he managed to scramble to another ship. That is how he survived the Arizona's sinking.

We are getting no messages," the signalman beside Paul said. "Much static.

I waved at him to stop, like a railway signalman in the face of an out-of-control train hurtling towards him.