. Bell telephone magazine . SiG-ciRCUS, originally the Army Signal Corpss mobile overseas radio telegraph station, located near Frankfurt, Germany, was leased by A. T. & Long Lines Department and modified to handle telephone conversations. Members of the U. S. Forces may make telephone calls to the United States fromeight cities in Germany. In this booking office in Frankfurt—as is the rule every-where—people take their turns regardless of rank 30 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING It was necessary, therefore, to closethis center temporarily, and callswere completed instead through pub-lic and
. Bell telephone magazine . SiG-ciRCUS, originally the Army Signal Corpss mobile overseas radio telegraph station, located near Frankfurt, Germany, was leased by A. T. & Long Lines Department and modified to handle telephone conversations. Members of the U. S. Forces may make telephone calls to the United States fromeight cities in Germany. In this booking office in Frankfurt—as is the rule every-where—people take their turns regardless of rank 30 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING It was necessary, therefore, to closethis center temporarily, and callswere completed instead through pub-lic and private phones. Switzerland, surrounded by com-batants, maintained service with theUnited States throughout the war—al-though with difficulty. Improvisa-tions were necessary to make up forwartime scarcities, and vital parts,such as vacuum tubes, were severaltimes flown into the country viaPortugal. Soldiers began to visitthere after V—E Day, first in smallnumbers and later in larger groupsunder an organized leave program having radio telephone service avail-able to the States. But Germany wassmashed — politically, economically,and physically. There was no equip-ment available, no constituted author-ity to operate it, no orga
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