GR translation: Bakerbakerbaker!

[Charles Albert]

For some reason I believe I may have heard this used in old war
movies......B for "Baker" may indicate "bogey" as in an approaching enemy
(or proxy).

love,
cfa



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:41 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found the following in the search within of a book called
> "Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography"
>
> "We had arranged four semaphore flag signals:
>
> ABLE ABLE ABLE Destructive tsunami Pacific Ocean
> BAKER BAKER BAKER Destructive tsunami Marshall Islands
> CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE minor tsunami
> DOG DOG DOG no tsunami"
>
> (at the time of the bomb testing at Bikini Atoll in 1952,
> interestingly but probably irrelevantly)
>
> so - I think the somebody in sonar may be reporting a signal received
> in a prearranged code.
>
> J
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I understand the phonetic alphabet part.  It is the why that I'm
> wondering
> > about.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:02 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.last.fm/user/Auto_Da_Fe
> >> http://www.pop.nu/en/show_collection.asp?user=2412
> >> http://www.librarything.com/profile/Auto_Da_Fe
> >> http://www.thedetails.co.uk/
> >> http://www.songkick.com/users/Auto_Da_Fe
> >> http://big-game.tumblr.com/
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.last.fm/user/Auto_Da_Fe
> http://www.pop.nu/en/show_collection.asp?user=2412
> http://www.librarything.com/profile/Auto_Da_Fe
> http://www.thedetails.co.uk/
> http://www.songkick.com/users/Auto_Da_Fe
> http://big-game.tumblr.com/
>
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