User talk:Adale501

E.K. Jett

The records I was able to get from the NPRC were incomplete: they included only his time as an enlisted man, and not after he became an officer. So I suspect whether they can find anything depends on how you ask: if you look for Lieutenant Jett, they have nothing, but if you look for Warrant Officer Jett, there's a nice file of about fifty pages, including his service record and (pro forma) promotion recommendations. The rest of his career was pieced together primarily out of Broadcasting magazine articles about him at various career transitions. 121a0012 (talk) 00:46, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

The source for his assumed name is the enlistment documents itself. There's actually a sworn statement from his second (I think) re-enlistment where his parents certify that the fellow the Navy knew as John Raymond Smith was in fact their son Ewell Kirk Jett. I would be very interested in the Sun article, but I don't know of a way for you to get it to me -- it would violate policy to put it here as it's still under copyright. My Broadcasting-reading project is currently on summer hiatus; I hope to pick back up with it in the fall. 121a0012 (talk) 02:03, 11 August 2012 (UTC)