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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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The message center of Army field headquarters is one of the busiest offices in the Alaskan theater of operations be told the most interesting and im-portant news about these units andthe telephone men in them: the storyof hardships, tough problems de-manding expert knowledge and skillfor solution, and achievements basedon both experience and the qualities the entire unit was activated. Soonafterward, it received intensive train-ing in desert warfare when, as onemaneuver problem, it built an open-wire pole line across the MojaveDesert and helped to develop a num-ber of construction methods adapted 172 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER to such conditions. Among these wasthe use of a special plow for buryingfield wire, developed by one of themaster sergeants in the unit. Thetraining obtained by these menproved so valuable that a number ofthe affiliated officers and men havebeen transferred to other units where
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This is the field office of a Signal Company Captain somewhere in New Guinea men of their background have beenparticularly needed. The unit itselfis now overseas. The affiliated cadre of anotherearly unit was called to active dutyin April, 1942. Five months later,the Associated Company from whichit had come was asked to replace theentire enlisted group—as seven of the original twelve men had been selectedfor Officers Candidate School andfive had been transferred to otherduties. A week after the new menreported, the unit was on its way tothe Southwest Pacific area, where ithas won the commendation of higherofficers for the effective discharge ofmany difficult assignments—includingthe construction of several badly-needed pole lines and the rapid instal-lation and testing of the radio sets ineight newly-assembled jeeps neededfor a special mission. Within thelast few months, nine more men inthe unit from the telephone companyproviding the affiliated cadre havebeen selected for Officer

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