GR translation: Bakerbakerbaker!

[Mike Jing]

"Bogey" sounds reasonable.  I guess it could also be some prearranged
code.  Not really relevant to the translation, but I was curious.  Thanks
all.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >
>> >
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>>
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