Dr. A. Hoyt Taylor: "Connection to Washington"

Other stations are directly connected to Washington

By this time I had been promoted to Lieutenant Commander. In July of 1918 I received a dispatch asking me to report to the Chief of the Radio Division, Bureau of Steam Engineering in Washington, as soon as possible. At that time I had unlimited travel orders; that is to say, I could travel on my own initiative, on these orders, without waiting for a command from any one, to any point in the United States, if my duties and interests so required. I grabbed my travel orders and hopped a train to Washington to find out what I had done wrong. I found out that I had merely worked myself out of a job. Lieutenant Commander LeClair told me that the aircraft radio program at Hampton Roads was not progressing as it should. He wanted me to go down and take charge of it. Orders were written up promptly. I returned to Belmar for two days, to turn over the rest of the work to subordinates, and proceeded to the Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, where was located the air station then under the command of Lieutenant Commander P:N.L. Bellinger, now vice Admiral Bellinger.
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