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Identifier: belltelephonemag23amerrich (find matches)
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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On tall French poles that line the road to Gabes, Signal Corps men run American telephone wires while battle rages in the distance Early in the African occupation this Army operator dug his switchboard in behind the beach to serve a battalion headquarters *^ I % »a ! ftc: ^-^-^ ■.inM. ■^ «
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80 Telephones Are In the Fight a hard time keeping communicationsopen. This man, incidentally, received thePurple Heart for wounds sustainednear San Stefano in Sicily last year.Of this he said: We were putting in wire at Mil-lion-Dollar Hill and a shrapnelburst got me. We called It Million-Dollar Hill because we figured wethrew a million dollars worth of ar-tillery shells at It. Then the In-fantry had to go in and dig the enemyout. The Sicilian Campaign Although radio was widely usedduring military operations In Sicily,wire remained a vital medium ofcombat communications. Reportsfrom commanders of Signal Corpsfield units emphasized the ability ofwire-laying crews to maintain com-munications at a pace which matchedthat of the advancing Infantry. Thesecurity and accuracy with which alarge volume of traffic was carriedby telephone lines were also cited. During the battle for San Fratello,It was necessary to lay a five-mileline of wire over a rocky, tracklessmountainside where a man could

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