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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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Army Airways Communications System:Nerve System of the AAF The U. S. Arm\ Air Forces—among otherjobs—operate the worlds largest air trans-port system. To guide the planes on theircourses and maintain constant contact withthem, radio highways in the sky stretchover the earth, along all the military airroutes, and right up to the battle fronts.This globe-encircling network is operatedby the Army Airways »Communications Sys-tem. Many thousands of men, scattered inI,OCX) small detachments throughout 48states and 55 foreign countries, operatingmillions of dollars worth of radio, tele-phone, and teletypewriter equipment, arerequired to perform this immense task. Messages concerning aircraft movementsare flashed from airbase to airbase, never permitting a plane to come in unan-nounced. AACS point-to-point stations transmitweather information with the speed of lightfrom the far reaches of Greenland or thesouth Pacific to the stations that informa-tion affects. Position reports, radioed t

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