GR translation: Bakerbakerbaker!

[James Kyllo]

It'll mean B B B from the phonetic alphabet  (don't know why though)

see the RAF and US designations in the chart 3/4 of the way down here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

J


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> V389.9-14  (P395.19-24)   “Bakerbakerbaker!” hollers somebody down in Sonar,
> loud and scared, over the phones. It means hostile torpedo on the way.
> Coffee messes go crashing, parallel rulers and dividers sliding across the
> glass top of the dead-reckoning tracer as the old tin can goes heeling over
> around onto an evasion pattern that was already obsolete during the Coolidge
> administration.
>
> Any idea where this designation for torpedo might come from?  Simple
> Googling yielded this:
>
> http://deansgarage.com/2011/electric-baker-torpedo-racers/
>
> Not sure if it has any relevance.
>



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