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Author Thompson, George Raynor.

Title The Signal Corps : the test (December 1941 to July 1943) / by George Raynor Thompson ... [et al.].

Imprint Washington, Center of Military History, United States Army, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Archives Fed Docs  D 114.7:SI 2/V.2/2003    ---  Available
Description xv, 621 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series United States Army in World War II. The technical services
CMH pub. ; 10-7
United States Army in World War II. Technical services.
Note "First printed 1957."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [566]-571) and index.
Contents December 1941: War in the Philippines. The impact of war in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer -- The call for troops (January-February 1942): Plans for getting enlisted men. Plans for getting officers. Getting civilians -- The call for equipment (January-May 1942): Radio for mobile armies and for world communication. Radio Airborne. Radar into the air for interception and search. Ground radar: the continuing exigencies of coastal defense -- The first months of the war overseas (January-May 1942): Toward Pacific outposts. China-Burma-India vicissitudes -- Alaska communications (January-July 1942): The command network. Kodiak, Otter Point, Dutch Harbor. The Alcan Highway. Canol and the Northwest Ferry Route. Communications for ground and air warning systems -- The first billion dollar Signal Corps (January-July 1942): The headquarters supply organization. The field organization -- Signal schooling (January-July 1942): The training structure. Camp Crowder. Camp Kohler. Fort Monmount. Camp Murphy --
Signal equipment: wire and radio (June-October 1942): Toward automatic teletype and tape relay. Ground radio and radio link or relay, transformed by FM. Signal Corps provides VHF command radio for army airplanes -- Signal equipment: radar (June-October 1942): Airborne radars on the increase. IFF--Identification: friend or foe ; Signal Corps altimeters: Secretary Patterson's objections ; AI--Airborne Interception Radar ; ASV--Air-to-Surface-Vessel Microwave Radar -- Ground radar potentialities multiplied by microwave techniques. SCR-296, Seacoast Artillery Fire Control Radar ; SCR-582, Harbor Surveillance Radar ; SCR-615, Microwave Radar for GCI, ground-controlled interception ; SCR-602, Lightweight Warning Radar ; SCR-584, Microwave Tracking or GL, gun-laying radar ; MEW, Microwave Early Warning Radar -- Accumulating strength over the world (June-October 1942): Build-up for the Air Forces in the Northeast. Radars for aircraft warning. Defense to offense in the West -- Preparing for the first major test (June-November 1942) --
The test at issue in North Africa (November 1942-May 1943): Stabilizing TORCH communications. New developments in combat communications. Signal Corps radars meet the test of war -- Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps (January 1942-mid-1943): Combat photography: early units and problems. The Training Film Program. Summary: the status of APS at mid-year 1943 -- Global communications (late 1942-mid-1943): The design for ACAN -- The technical service a supply service (late 1942-mid-1943): Technical specialization vs. mass supply. The shrinking labor market. International aid. The shifting emphasis in procurement. The increasing importance of the distribution system -- Signal Corps position in mid-1943 (May-June 1943): The situation at home and overseas. Headquarters crisis over supply and control problems.
Subject United States. Army. Signal Corps.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Communications.
Added Author Center of Military History.
ISBN 016001915X
Gpo Item No. 0345
Sudoc No. D 114.7:SI 2/V.2/2003

 
    
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