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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
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ted,men in the two groups is about equal. Just as there are many types ofaffiliated units, there are also manylocations throughout the world towhich have been sent those whosepreliminary training is complete.Obviously these locations cannot beclosely identified, but they includebases in the Caribbean and Atlanticareas, points in northwest Canadaand Alaska, islands in the southwestPacific, and centers of military ac-tivity in Australia, the Middle East,and many parts of northwest Africa. 1943 Skilled Manpower for the Signal Corps 171 As this is written, three weeks afterthe landings in Sicily, some units un-doubtedly are helping to establishthe communications essential for therapidly advancing American forcesthere. Only after victory is won can there of a soldier. At present only a fewscattered examples may be given. The affiliated cadre of the firstunit called to active duty reported atFort Monmouth on February 28,1942, and less than three weeks laterproceeded to the West Coast, where
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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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