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My father was in the US Navy during WW II and the Korean war.  I
remember as a child going through some of his memorabilia.  One item was
a deck of cards with signal flags on one side and a phonetic alphabet on
the other side.  The phonetic alphabet was far different than the 1927
one quoted by Gary.   I remember Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox.
Looking at Wikipedia's article on Military Phonetics
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_alphabet_%28military%29), I find
the 1952 RAF alphabet closest to what I remember.   But I believe my
dad's card deck used "Int" (as in "interrogatory") for "I" and used
something different for "N," "O," and "T" (can't remember what, though).

So I have to wonder whether the phonetic alphabet used in 1937 was
indeed the one from 1927 or had been changed.

glapook@pacbell.net wrote:
> Did anyone else notice the radioman on Itasca calling Earhart, who's
> call sign was  KHAQQ,  as KING-HOW-ABLE-QUEEN-QUEEN  when this
> phonetic alphabet had not yet been invented in 1937? The proper usage,
> based on the 1927 Navy Bluejackets Manual, should have been KING-HYPO-
> AFFIRMATIVE-QUACK-QUACK.
>
> (This is where the name Station Hypo comes from for the the navy's
> code breaking station in Hawaii in W.W.II.)
>
> gl
>
>

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