Oral History Interview with Albert Brown, March 2, 2010 Page: 2

                                
make more Naval Engineering Officers, and they took the top
five percent of the class and sent us to MIT to a very
secret thing, the word radar was secret in those days, and
we went to a special part of MIT that was hidden in Boston
Harbor in an old building. And, you entered the old
building and the only funny thing about it was when you
went over to the elevator to go up to where we had classes,
the elevator [was?] operated by our Marines.
CM: (inaudible)
AB: So, anyway, I got into the radar business, went out to
Pearl Harbor, was in the amphibious forces at Guadalcanal
for a year, and then they sent out a thing saying they
wanted sea-experienced officers for submarines, because
they were building so many new ones. And since I --
CM: What year was this?
AB: This was in 1940 -- it's going to be '42. And, since I
wanted to do a three-dimensional thing in the air, I
thought well, if I couldn't do it in the air I'd do it in
the water. So, I put in for submarines, went back to New

London to submarine school, then went out to Australia to
pick up a submarine, which I did, and spent some time on
the submarines. And --
CM: Now, were you a captain of the submarine, or --

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