Radio Silence Orders
- Radio silencing occurred after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in World War II using AM radio station KGU in Honolulu as a homing signal.
- On June 2, 1942, during WWII, a nine-minute air-raid alert, including at 9:22 pm a radio silence order applied to all radio stations from Mexico to Canada.
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