"Mill" - Typewriter for Navy Radiomen copying CW (Morse Code) manually

A "mill" is distinguished from normal typewriters by having all caps (9 point, sans serif) and having numbers "1" and "slashed 0" on the top row.
Note: Portable models were typically used elsewhere than in the radio room, but still have the same key/type layout.

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Thanks to David Ring N1EA, you can download a mill font for Windows computers 
from https://www.qsl.net/n1ea/mill_02.ttf 
Save the file and double-click on it to install.

Copying CW before the mill - USS Walke in 1914
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Radioman at LOP (Local Operating Position) with older style mill
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Underwood mill aboard USS Massachusetts
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1966 - a more modern mill aboard USS Robert E Lee
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Another modern version aboard USS Liberty
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Yet another version aboard USS Rowan in 1969
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1959 Aboard USS Estes
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1961 Aboard USS Estes
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Underwood Model 5 mill
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1942 Underwood Model S mill
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Underwood Universal portable mill
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mill-under-1209-03.jpg (48202 bytes) mill-under-1209-02.jpg (78071 bytes) Another Photo of Underwood Universal mill
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Royal model KMM mill

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1940's model Royal Arrow portable mill
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1940's Corona Standard portable mill

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Remington 5 portable mill
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remington-5-1604-04.jpg (322347 bytes) "USN" on case
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R.C. Allen mill
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More photos of mills

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RIP-5 Underwood "Code Machine" - Used by intercept operators to copy Japanese Morse code - it prints Kana characters - More info, More info, More info, NCM video

Browne, Jay R., Editor. "RIP 5, The Underwood Code Machine". Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association Special Publication. 2005. 110 pp. 
From NSA article on Linguists - Katakana was usually used for sending telegrams and for Morse transmissions from ships or military units -- and was what American intercept operators meant when they said they "copied kana" or "copied kana code."

In order to provide standard representation of Japanese in intercept, OP-20-G's Laurance Safford bought and modified typewriters for intercept operators. This machine came to be called the RIP-5 and eventually was shared with the Army's SIS.

An OP-20-G history described the RIP-5 as "the kana character represented by a dot-dash combination which, in International Morse, represented a Roman letter, was printed by the type block actuated by the key, which on a normal typewriter, caused that letter to print." That is, when a Japanese clerk transmitted "-…," the U.S. operator recognized it as Roman "B" and struck "B" on the RIP-5; the typewriter, however, printed out the kana character [HA] represented by "-…" in Japanese.
Radio Intercept Instructions - Japanese Morse, Abbreviations, Military Terms Glossary
from Military Intelligence Service Language School, Camp Savage MN, circa 1943
 - b/w scan pdf,   grayscale scan pdf
Photos from eBay 2018 
RIP-5 based on Underwood "Model 5"
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Photos from National Cryptographic Museum archives
RIP-5 based on Underwood "Model 5"
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RIP-5 based on Underwood "Master"
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RIP-5 based on Underwood "Model 5"
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rip5-ncm04-02.jpg (893933 bytes) RIP-5 based on Underwood "Universal Portable" for shipboard Radio Intercept Unit use
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