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Identifier: belltelephonemag23amerrich (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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e enemy armada, so muchlarger than his own, and they did notknow of his existence—at least nottill the dawn of the morning of May4, when the planes of the Yorktownspowerful striking force fell on Tulaglfrom the sky and wiped out the Japinvasion fleet there for our first vic-tory of the war. As SOON as he had won it, Fletcherturned west and steamed at hot speedfor the waters south of New Guinea.Once more the Japs did not know ofhis presence, for he had used only 1944 The Telephone Remakes Naval Warfare 29 short-range voice radio telephone—and so kept them from getting a fixon him with their radio directionfinders. When, on the morning ofMay 6, the striking forces were flownfrom the Lexington and Yorktown,they found the Jap carrier Ryiikaku Now the interesting thing aboutboth the Coral Sea and Midway ac-tions is that they were, in a sense,conventional naval battles. The useof airplane striking forces had movedthe fleets out to 200 miles apart in-stead of the 200 yards of the days of
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Battle by night in Kula Gulf. Most naval actions in this war have been fought in the dark and have lasted only a few minutes. The tbs circuit enables captains to get in direct communication with and identify their neighbors just turning into the wind to launchplanes, and slapped at least 10 tor-pedoes, at least 15 heavy bombs intoher. Commander Dixon opened uphis long-range radiophone to shoutthe jubilant message that has becomea classic: Scratch one flat-top. sail, but the procedure was essentiallywhat it had always been. The ad-mirals flag was on the leading andmost powerful unit; the others fol-lowed her movements but used theiroffensive powers (in the two cases,airplanes) pretty much at their own 30 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING discretion against whatever ships ofthe enemy they chose. There wassome tactical difference between CoralSea-Midway and the old pattern ofbattle, to be sure; a difference broughtabout by the telephone in the form ofTBS. But it seemed a minor matterat the

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