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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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cESSFUL use of regular Bell Sysrtem Toll Credit Cards was an inno-vation with the Third Army Maneu-vers. During such an extensive se-ries of military operations, Army of-ficers necessarily have to make use ofcommercial long distance telephonefacilities from various points. ArmyRegulations make no provision for re-imbursement for such expenditures,and collect calls are not alwayspracticable. Southern Bell therefore suggestedthe use of the credit cards, and thesuggestion was adopted. About 400such cards were issued in blank to theCorps Area Signal Officer at Ft. Mc-Pherson, Ga., who reissued the cardsto individual officers who were to actas umpires, control officers, or on tac-tical and administrative units. Asthe cards were issued, the Signal Offi-cer furnished the telephone companywith the information regarding eachcard, for use of the various depart-ments. All Bell and independentcompany traffic forces in the Maneu-ver territory were instructed on the I d9^0 Another War Game Test 173
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THEATER OF OPERATIONS On this map of the maneuver territory, each of the small blocks, 16 miles square, contains four posts of the Aircraft Warning Service, each represented by a light. Successive reports result in a row of lights which shows graphically the line of flight of planes. The heavy irregular black lines trace the separate routes followed by the Blue forces from Fort Benning, Ga., to Camp Beauregard, La. handling of calls made with the creditcards. The cards were returned tothe Signal Officer at the conclusionof the Maneuvers, for cancellation.While considerable use of the cardswas made during the Corps maneu-ivers at Ft. Benning, and on the marchto Louisiana, most of the use cameduring the battle of the SabineValley. Cards for the Red army were is-sued by the Southwestern Bell Tele-phone Company, handled through the Signal Officer of the Ninth Army atSan Antonio, Texas. Blue army officers placed 4,719long distance telephone calls withtheir credit cards during the Ma-neuver

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