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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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dd far-flung colleagues had scotchedLittle Joe on the same equipmentby the use of an FE-1088 Oscillator.Within a short hour Joe had leftMidway. Joe had not always been viewedwith such nonchalance, nor had healways been so easy to eliminate. Inthe early years of the war, he had Western Electric Experts with the Armed Forces 55 been a real menace,were teeming with When the seasJaps and Ger-mans, it was disconcerting, to say theleast, to have such a will-o-the-wisptarget bob up every so often. It iseven possible that an occasional tor-pedo was fired at Little Joe. In anycase, Joe, in concert with a number ofhis brother gremlins, threatened toundermine the confidence of Navy police radio engineer, school him inthe new science of radar, send him tothe Norfolk Navy Yard for monthsof additional training and experience,and then ship him out to Midwayamong the submarines and the gooneybirds. In the five days immediately fol-lowing that fateful Sunday morningof late 1941 at Pearl Harbor, one of
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A Western Electric field engineer on duty in the Pacific changes from one warshipto another by breeches buoy to answer a call for expert radar assistance crews in the radar equipment whichhad so recently been given them. Joes departure was important, andthe fact that it was a hurried depar-ture was even more important; butthe incident hardly provides morethan a hint of the reason for the fieldengineer being with the military serv-ices. In itself, it cannot explain whythe Navy requested Western Elec-tric to hire this young man, a former the first Western Electric field engi-neers, a former ERPI * man, worked85 hours repairing damaged radarand making new installations. In October and November of 1945,a field engineer accompanied the 7th * ERPI, signifying Electrical Research Prod-ucts, Inc., a former subsidiary of Western Elec-tric Company which introduced and distributedWestern Electric sound motion picture equip-ment. 56 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING Amphibious Corps of the Marinesas

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