Perdue decoded North Korean messages
SUN PHOTO BY DON MOORE
John Perdue at 85, at his Port Charlotte home.
Airman 1st Class John Perdue spent most of his four years in the U.S. Air Force decoding secret messages from the North Korean Air Force during the Korean War of the 1950s.
After running out of funds while attending college in the Chicago area, he decided to give the Air Force a try because they offered him a choice of job opportunities, he recalled 60 years later.