. Bell telephone magazine . An AACS maintenance chief checks radiotransmitters at a busy communications center tor, they would constitute a continuous ra-dio highway with a radio range or homingbeacon every 8o miles. Other statistics are equally than 300,000,000 words a monthare transmitted by point-to-point stations. (jround stations make more than 50,000contacts with planes in Hight each day,and control tower operators, controllinglandings and take-offs at air bases fromIwo Jima to Paris, made more than 4,000,-000 contacts a month. The prime function of the Army Air-ways Comm


. Bell telephone magazine . An AACS maintenance chief checks radiotransmitters at a busy communications center tor, they would constitute a continuous ra-dio highway with a radio range or homingbeacon every 8o miles. Other statistics are equally than 300,000,000 words a monthare transmitted by point-to-point stations. (jround stations make more than 50,000contacts with planes in Hight each day,and control tower operators, controllinglandings and take-offs at air bases fromIwo Jima to Paris, made more than 4,000,-000 contacts a month. The prime function of the Army Air-ways Communications System lies in theprovision of necessary radio facilities toguide aircraft along military air it is not all uneventful. OperatingJACSPAC, the joint communicationssystem for the Army and Navy in the Pa-cific, AACS detachments have put equip-ment on beachheads while shells and mor-tar fire picked at the ground. Duringdozens of consecutive amphibious opera-tions in the Southwest Pacifie, AACS menhave move


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