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Incoming and outgoing communications were censored. In the early years I was actually tortured to write letters home. Refusing to write because of censorship and the fact that letters were the justification for traitorous “peace groups” to conduct their treason, made such refusal a keystone of resistance posture.

Incoming and outgoing communications were censored. In the early years I was actually tortured to write letters home. Refusing to write because of censorship and the fact that letters were the justification for traitorous “peace groups” to conduct their treason, made such refusal a keystone of resistance posture.

There were difficulties associated with initiating contact within the prison system since communication of any kind between prisoners was considered a sign of leadership and subversion by our jailers. New prisoners were isolated while awaiting interrogation and torture if not compliant. After processing they were as space allowed placed in solitary confinement for attitude adjustment purposes. To complicate matters further, most aviators only had a rudimentary knowledge, if any, of Morse Code.

There were difficulties associated with initiating contact within the prison system since communication of any kind between prisoners was considered a sign of leadership and subversion by our jailers. New prisoners were isolated while awaiting interrogation and torture if not compliant. After processing they were as space allowed placed in solitary confinement for attitude adjustment purposes. To complicate matters further, most aviators only had a rudimentary knowledge, if any, of Morse Code.

   

   

Tap CodeMorse Code as a means of prison communication had severe limitations. There were only occasional cigarette wrappers or paper towel like toilet paper with no pencils or ink available for communication. You could manufacture ink out of brick dust and sundry such elements and use bamboo slivers for pens.

Tap CodeMorse Code as a means of prison communication had severe limitations. There were only occasional cigarette wrappers or paper towel like toilet paper with no pencils or ink available for communication. You could manufacture ink out of brick dust and sundry such elements and use bamboo slivers for pens.

The preferred, most secure and most reliable method was to tap on the walls or floor pad in a rhythmic code known to us as the Tap Code. The code in fact was a quadratic alphabet made up of twenty five letters in a box five across the top and five down the side

The preferred, most secure and most reliable method was to tap on the walls or floor pad in a rhythmic code known to us as the Tap Code. The code in fact was a quadratic alphabet made up of twenty five letters in a box five across the top and five down the side

Since our English alphabet has 26 letters, our guys left the letter “K” out to form the symmetrical (5x5) box. (They must have been engineers, certainly not English majors.)

Since our English alphabet has 26 letters, our guys left the letter “K” out to form the symmetrical (5x5) box. (They must have been engineers, certainly not English majors.)