WWII Navy Veteran on Secret Radar Work and the Pacific War | Arthur Lewis
The Team House
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Arthur also discusses his postwar life at UCLA, working on early airborne radar at Hughes Aircraft, becoming a lawyer, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court, and reflecting on it all at 100 years old.
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00:00 — Start
00:34 — Growing up in Brooklyn, adoption, and Brooklyn Tech before the war
04:40 — Why Arthur joined the Navy instead of being drafted into the Army
06:03 — Navy boot camp, electronics training, and learning secret radar systems
12:34 — Classified radar work and waiting for a Pacific assignment
16:22 — Assigned to LSM-238 and fixing radio gear before deployment
21:05 — Pearl Harbor, landing training, and preparing for the invasion force
28:54 — Marines, the armored bulldozer, and the tense trip toward Iwo Jima
32:54 — Arriving off Iwo Jima: battleships, air attacks, and the landing
37:00 — Taking Japanese prisoners and seeing humanity in the middle of war
40:55 — Getting wounded, climbing aboard a transport, and finally getting a real meal
47:36 — Ship damage, Pearl Harbor repairs, and mine sweeping after the war
55:41 — UCLA, Hughes Aircraft, and working on early airborne radar systems
01:09:04 — Becoming a lawyer and building a 50-year criminal defense career
01:15:43 — Arguing a search-and-seizure case before the U.S. Supreme Court
01:32:57 — The Whitey Bulger case, retiring from law, and reflections at 100 years old
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Team House. I'm Jack Murphy here with today's guest. Arthur Lewis. |
| 0:06.1 | Author is a veteran of World War II, served in the Pacific, and he is 100 years young as of this speaking. |
| 0:12.9 | We're very excited to have him on the show. Author, welcome to the Team House. |
| 0:18.8 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:20.8 | So, Arthur, let's start at the beginning. Tell us where you grew up and... Teamhouse. I had to be here. |
| 0:22.9 | So, Arthur, let's start at the beginning. |
| 0:26.7 | Tell us where you grew up and what life was like before the war. |
| 0:28.9 | Where did I grow up? |
| 0:32.7 | Well, I was born in New York City. |
| 0:43.3 | My mother rented a room in a bungalow in Brighton Beach. I never really remembered my mother. |
| 0:46.3 | She passed away when I was about three, four years old. |
| 0:52.3 | Mrs. Lewis, who was owned the bungalow with her husband. |
| 0:59.0 | She was a chef. |
| 1:01.0 | She used to cook in the mountains of caskills. |
| 1:04.0 | And when mother passed away, they didn't know what to do with a kid. And Mrs. Lewis raised me for a while until the lawyers |
| 1:16.5 | got involved. They wanted to put them into a home, an orphan room. And Mrs. Lewis decided that |
| 1:26.6 | she'd like to keep me there. |
| 1:29.7 | But they had to take me away from her and she used to come visit me and I'd go to the |
| 1:36.7 | gate with her. |
| 1:37.7 | She was leaving and asking her, when are we going home? |
| 1:42.5 | She didn't particularly care state there. |
| 1:45.4 | But an adoption followed. |
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