Parade Grounds Dedication
What these veterans did at Fort Ward during World War II was so top-secret that they couldn't even tell their families.
But on Saturday, August 10, they were honored publicly for the first time.
It was all part of a day-long celebration on the Fort Ward Parade Grounds, which is the heart of Bainbridge Island's only National Historic District. The land is being saved as a park circled by homes designed to fit in to the historic era of the fort will encircle the Parade Grounds park.
Navy WWII vets who served at Fort Ward's top-secret Station S celebrate the opening of the Parade Grounds park.
The new Parade Grounds park will be circled by homes designed to fit in with the architectural character of the old fort.
Code-named "Station S," Fort Ward was a top secret listening post where radiomen and women listened in on Japanese communications - codenamed "Magic" - in WWII. Thanks to their work, the US was able to decode the message that instructed the Japanese Ambassador to break off negotiations at 1pm Washington time on December 7, 1941 - just after dawn in Hawaii.
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