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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (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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headquarters. Flying 4,000 feet the first night to train ob-servers, invading bombers later flew at 18,000 feet, 20,000feet and 24,000 feet, but they could not escape the eyes andears of the civilian observers, who never failed to see or hearthem and to get the word through to Fort Bragg within threeminutes. A Blackout Warning On the evening of October 13 the telephone network re-ceived its first test in handling Blackout orders. When sixgiant bombers headed in past Cape Hatteras, the civilian-ob-server telephone network gave the defense immediate warningthat an attack was on the way. At 7:01 p.m. General Gard-ners order Blackout immediately was telephoned to ZoneMessage Centers by the Sector Message Center at Fort Bragg. Over the commercial telephone systems to telephone chiefoperators, to Blackout Chiefs in the different communities,to Broadcasting Stations WPTF and WFTC, the order waspassed along by prearranged methods. Blackout Chiefs used \.\-\ \ fM 7 r.M -.i \ii Pir Wiisc- T^^ Z
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r J Electrically Operated Warning Net Map Board at Defense Headquarters, Fort Bragg

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