Jack Helps War Department after Pearl Harbor

U.S.S. Arizona, Pearl Harbor, 1941

Jack says that when Pearl Harbor was attacked he was a student at Bakersfield Junior College and was operating a ham radio station in their science building.  He says he was tasked with relaying coded messages about the attacks from Hawaii to the War Department in Washington.  This was through his membership in the American Radio Relay League.  A book called Aacs - Air Communication says that the American Radio Relay League worked in coordination with the Army Amateur Radio System and that after Pearl Harbor amateur radio operations were suspended. (pg. 30.)   Jack was 19 at this time, and had been a radio ham since the age of 13.  I asked him why the army couldn't do this itself and he implied that they just weren't prepared and that the amateurs were better at it.