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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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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ragencies have been indicated. Thetelephone companies, Bell and inde-pendent, did that job, and turned themaps over to the Air Corps four In-terceptor Commands. That was the start of the presentground observer network. On thesemaps, starting with an indicated tele-phone. Air Force officers laid circulartemplates scaled to an eight-mile di-ameter, and drew overlapping circles.At some point within each of thesecircles an observation post was care-fully selected and a trustworthy citi-zen appointed chief observer. To ob-tain this enormous organization, aid ofthe Office of Civilian Defense, StateDefense Councils, and the AmericanLegion was enlisted. Each chief ob-server appointed his deputy observers,and obtained enough volunteer observ-ers to insure constant coverage of thepost—24 hours a day, seven days aweek. So, day and night, those observationposts which have been activated bythe Army are manned by these patri-otic civilian volunteers. Each of these Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY
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Observers on Duty Day and night, at authorized observation posts in city, town, and country, thousands of civilian volunteers peer into the sky and report airplanes seen or heard thousands of posts has its code name;each observer has his instructions—orhers, for many women are among thewatchers. An observer at an authorized ob-servation post, seeing or hearing anairplane, or several, goes to the tele-phone, says to the operator ArmyFlash, gives the telephone number ofhis post—and initiates a train ofevents which are astounding both intheir complexity and in the speed withwhich they are executed. Speed is ofthe essence, since the flight observedmay be hostile aircraft approachingan objective at hundreds of miles anhour. And so carefully coordinatedare all the elements involved in de-fense against air attack that in op-erating today they exhibit in highdegree the team-work which makesthe system effective. Ihe telephone operator, receivingthe Army Flash call (and screeningout any suc

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