The Signal Corps
Subtitle: the test (December 1941 to July 1943)
By: by George Raynor Thompson ... [et al.]
Contributors: Center of Military History
Series: CMH pub -- 10-7; United States Army in World War II. The technical services; United States Army in World War II
Publisher: Center of Military History, United States Army
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
Subjects: United States. -- Army. -- Signal Corps; World War, 1939-1945 -- Communications
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2004-0187-P

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"First printed 1957."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [566]-571) and index
Table of contents: title: December 1941: War in the Philippines. The impact of war in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer; title: The call for troops (January-February 1942): Plans for getting enlisted men. Plans for getting officers. Getting civilians; title: 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; title: The first months of the war overseas (January-May 1942): Toward Pacific outposts. China-Burma-India vicissitudes; title: 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; title: The first billion dollar Signal Corps (January-July 1942): The headquarters supply organization. The field organization; title: Signal schooling (January-July 1942): The training structure. Camp Crowder. Camp Kohler. Fort Monmount. Camp Murphy; title: 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; title: Signal equipment: radar (June-October 1942): Airborne radars on the increase. IFF; title: Identification: friend or foe ; Signal Corps altimeters: Secretary Patterson's objections ; AI; title: Airborne Interception Radar ; ASV; title: Air-to-Surface-Vessel Microwave Radar; title: 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; title: 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; title: Preparing for the first major test (June-November 1942); title: 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; title: 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; title: Global communications (late 1942-mid-1943): The design for ACAN; title: 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; title: Signal Corps position in mid-1943 (May-June 1943): The situation at home and overseas. Headquarters crisis over supply and control problems