Posted on Nov 25, 2020
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Remembering On-the-Roof Gang member Daryl Wigle, whose birthday it is today. Wigle was born on 25 November 1899 in Prineville Oregon and enlisted in the Navy as a Radioman. He attended OTRG Class #3 and was assigned to Station BAKER in Guam. After a tour in Bar Harbor, Maine, he was assigned to Station ABLE in China as the Chief Radioman in Charge. There, he oversaw the move of the intercept site into the Fourth Marines Headquarters building in the International Settlement in Shanghai. He was next assigned to Washington, DC where he taught OTRG Classes #21-23 and then as the Chief Radioman in Charge of Station M in Cheltenham, Maryland. Notably, he was the supervisor on watch when intercept operator Sidney Burnett claimed to have copied the “Winds Execute” message, which would have indicated war with the United States. While Burnett swore that Wigle could corroborate the story, but Wigle never confirmed this. As the war began, he taught a katakana intercept class at Cheltenham that was called Class #25X. These men weren’t officially a part of the On-the-Roof Gang, but participated in the war as intercept operators, nonetheless. Shortly afterwards, he was commissioned and assigned to Bainbridge Island to be the Officer in Charge of the newly established katakana code schoolhouse there. He retired from active duty as a Lieutenant Commander. He died on 29 July 1979 in Bethesda, Maryland and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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PO1 Steve Ditto
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Thank you for this information on a fellow radioman brother Chip.
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Wayne Soares
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Thanks for the share brother Chip
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Wayne Soares I'm a Spook, I Acknowledge those that Came Before!
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