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MU: Okay. Harvey, we're talking about your work in Australia doing translation of technical documents. Can you tell us a little bit more about that work? Any other interesting incidents that happened?

HW: Well, yes. I guess one of the things that was a problem to the group was the fact that I was an enlisted man heading up the team and I couldn't go to the briefings because you had to be an officer to be in the briefings. They finally figured it out. They asked me if I knew anything about movie projectors, and I said, "I know some things." Said, "Okay, you'll be the assistant movie projector and go to the briefings." [Laughs]

MU: Now, what went on in the briefings?

HW: Well, this information about state-of-affairs and ETO, as well as...

MU: ETO -- European theater?

HW: Yeah, oh yeah. Sure. And, it would come on film. And they would show it at the briefing and whatever.

MU: So you pretty much knew how the war was going, then?

HW: Yeah, had a pretty good idea. Yeah. Sure.

MU: I think a lot of the fellows in the field -- they could only see what they saw in their own little particular field of operation and they didn't...

HW: And that was enough. I mean, that's all they could handle, you know.

MU: Yeah, they had to survive. And that's what they were interested in. But to get that general view, that might've been -- must've been rather interesting.

HW: Lot of it had to do with air battles and aircraft type of equipment.

MU: Did you know anything about the shooting down of Admiral Yamamoto?

HW: Uh, not really. I learned most of that later. But... yeah.

MU: Okay.

HW: But, we knew that it had happened, yes.

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