. Bell telephone magazine . ce. Specialist 2 Master Sergeant Line Foreman Master Sergeant Chief Telegraph Printer Operator Master Sergeant Wire Chief Technical Sergeant Asst. Line Foreman Technical Sergeant Asst. Chief Tel. Printer Operator Technical Sergeant Assistant Wire Chief Technician—4th Grade Insideman technician—4th Grade Repeaterman 2 Technician—4th Grade Switchboard Installer 2 Technician—5th Grade Frameman Jan iry, 1942 1 1943 Skilled Manpower J or the Signal Corps 167 blitzkrieg demonstrated again andagain the indispensability of superiorcommunications for tiiis new kind ofwar
. Bell telephone magazine . ce. Specialist 2 Master Sergeant Line Foreman Master Sergeant Chief Telegraph Printer Operator Master Sergeant Wire Chief Technical Sergeant Asst. Line Foreman Technical Sergeant Asst. Chief Tel. Printer Operator Technical Sergeant Assistant Wire Chief Technician—4th Grade Insideman technician—4th Grade Repeaterman 2 Technician—4th Grade Switchboard Installer 2 Technician—5th Grade Frameman Jan iry, 1942 1 1943 Skilled Manpower J or the Signal Corps 167 blitzkrieg demonstrated again andagain the indispensability of superiorcommunications for tiiis new kind ofwar. As the danger to the United Statesincreased, the Signal Corps requestedthat volunteers be sought for certaincommissioned officers positions in weeks training at Fort following that attack,the preliminary plan was revised tomeet the Signal Corps needs underthe new conditions and, within a fewweeks, it was put into of the principal changes requiredwas the inclusion of a substantial. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM U. S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS Switchboard operator and plotter receive telephoned instructions during ananti-aircraft demonstration at an American desert training center six Signal Battalions, so that theymight receive some preliminary mili-tary training and be ready to servein case war were suddenly of six System companiespromptly found the men needed forone of these units and, some monthsbefore the Japanese attack at PearlHarbor, these men received several number of units to serve with the AirForces, in view of the great impor-tance of their communications prob-lem. The essential element of this planwas the designation of a communica-tions specialists cadre to form anucleus of experienced telephone menwithin each of a large number of Sig- i68 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER nal Corps units. The accompanyingtable lists the positions designated forsuch a cadre in a Signal Battalion inthe preliminary plan, when the totalstrength of
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