United States Army in World War II: The Technical Services: The Signal Corps
The Emergency (to December 1941)
by Dulany Terrett
1954
. . . To those who served
Table of Contents
Part One: Before World War II
Chapter 1: Military Communications
The Place of the Signal Corps—The Early Signal Corps—The Signal Corps in World War I
Postwar Curtailment—The Continuing Technical Tradition—Defense-Strategy Signaling—Administrative Signaling—Peacetime Procurement Planning
Chapter 3: The Scope of the Signal Corps
The Chief in Office—Pictorial Communication—Communications Contradictions—Communications Spheres of Interest
Chapter 4: The Army in Abeyance
Chapter 5: Equipment Search and Research
Wire—Radio—Radar
Part Two: The Limited and Unlimited Emergencies
Chapter 6: The Pace of Emergency
Testing Tactical Communications—FM—Moves During the Winter—The Weight of Field Demands
Chapter 7: The Propulsion from Limbo
Accumulating Production—The Mirrors of Defense Effort—FM Confirmed—First Answers in Air Radar—The Tizard Mission
Signal Strength—Signal Training
Chapter 9: Working for the Ground Forces
The Pigeon Service—The Photographic Service—Tactical and Administrative Service—Supply Service
Chapter 10: Working for the Air Forces
Chapter 11: Signaling the Hemisphere
To the Northwest and the Northeast—To the Southeast—From New Jersey—From the Office of the Chief Signal Officer—To the West
Appendix: Signal Corps Equipment, World War II
Charts
1. Radiation Spectrum, World War II
2. Contrast Between Typical Signal Corps Organizations in Wartime and Peacetime
Illustrations
One Early Means of Signaling—Civil War Signal Tower—The Wright Brothers’ Airplane—Early Experiments With Radio—Signal Corps Installations in France in 1918—The SCR-77—A Flying Radio Laboratory—Experimental Antennas—Early Sound Detection Device—The War Department Message Center—Transmitters at Station WAR—ROTC Students—Motion Picture Camera Crew—Mobile Pigeon Loft—An Aircraft Warning Service Filter Center—A Training Film Field Unit—Laying Field Wire—A Battery-Powered Telephone—A Twelve-Drop Switchboard—The SCR-131—Radar—The SCR-177—Dr. Edwin H. Armstrong—Locator Equipment at the Louisiana Maneuvers—The SCR-195, Walkie-Talkie—Training in Teletypewriter Maintenance—Enlisted Men Learning Open Wire Construction—Enlisted Men Learning Pole Climbing—Pigeon Lofts at Fort Monmouth—Training Film Under Production—Portable Radios Developed by the Signal Corps—Camouflaged IFF Equipment—Maj. Gen. Joseph O. Mauborgne—Maj. Gen. Dawson Olmstead—Remote Receiver Station—The Cable Ship Restorer—SCR-271 Radar Station in Panama
All illustrations are from Department of Defense Files.