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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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fic, the northernone passing through Jackson, Miss.,and the southern through New Or-leans. Temporary telephone servicewas usually furnished at each camp ifsufficient telephones were not alreadyavailable. During this march, Red army air-craft attempted to destroy the Bluearmy columns by direct attack, andharassed it by bombing bridges andother strategic points. To notifyBlue aviation forces of their forays,the Aircraft Warning Service wasestablished and operated May 7through May U. The Civilian AircraftWarning Service 1 HE extent of the Third Army Air-craft Warning Service was the great-est of any such system yet organized.It covered 234 counties, including 17in southern Arkansas, 11 in WesternFlorida, and all of the 57 counties(parishes) in Louisiana, the 82 inMississippi and the 67 in Alabama. This area was divided into 16-milesquares, an arbitrary military grid,totalling 1600 squares. In each ofthese squares a subdivision was made iOiO Another War Game Test 167 iWSKssr— I. .~i nu,
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CONTROL SECTION AT CAMP BEAUREGARD, LA. Note the hang-up hand telephones, with visual signals instead of bells into 8-mile quadrangles, with a civil-ian observation post located as nearthe center of the quadrangle as pos-sible. With alternates, some tenthousand volunteer civilian observerswere engaged in watching for air-planes. Securing these civilian observerswas a task which the American Legionhandled in excellent style. Throughthe Department Commanders and theDistrict Commanders, county chiefswere selected, and they in turn chosethe observers. Many of the observ-ers, incidentally, were women. American Legion representatives,usually the county chiefs, had the full cooperation of the telephone companymanagers in selecting telephones atexisting locations for use as observa-tion posts. This cooperation includedthe Southwestern Bell TelephoneCompany representatives in Arkansas,the Southern Bell people in the re-maining states, and the many inde-pendent telephone company represen-tative

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