Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
5:34 | Thanks to ROTC, Lyman Taylor already knew how to drill when he got to Navy boot camp in 1943. When he was done there, he was assigned to a specialty school where he learned cryptography. The discipline was so new, he was classified as an electrician, right down to the shoulder patch.
When Lyman Taylor arrived in Leyte as part of Gen. MacArthur's technical team, he had to ask about the gruesome sight he saw in the street. He was a Cryptographic Technician in the Navy but his rating was "Electrician." Lyman Taylor had to explain this when he got in theater and they put him in an engine room aboard ship.
