. Bell telephone magazine . hours in the suburbs of Madrid, sincethe driver couldnt find his way inthe dark. When he was located, thetired engineers went to work, andsoon the equipment was installed andworking. It continued to functionuntil recently, when it was replaced bynew single-sideband equipment. Meanwhile, overseas service to thePacific and Latin America continuedto grow, unhampered by the war inEurope. Until the fateful 7th ofDecember, the year 1941 looked likea quiet period for overseas. But asthe news of Pearl Harbor spread, thecircuits to and from Honolulu wereswamped with a backlo
. Bell telephone magazine . hours in the suburbs of Madrid, sincethe driver couldnt find his way inthe dark. When he was located, thetired engineers went to work, andsoon the equipment was installed andworking. It continued to functionuntil recently, when it was replaced bynew single-sideband equipment. Meanwhile, overseas service to thePacific and Latin America continuedto grow, unhampered by the war inEurope. Until the fateful 7th ofDecember, the year 1941 looked likea quiet period for overseas. But asthe news of Pearl Harbor spread, thecircuits to and from Honolulu wereswamped with a backlog of thousandsof calls. Upon the declaration ofwar the Berlin circuit was cut im-mediately. However, at the requestof the State Department, the Tokyocircuit was kept up some hours longer,for additional calls with AmbassadorGrew. As the Japs invaded the Philip- 44 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING. The overseas radio telephone circuit control room in the Long Lines building in New York pines and drew nearer and nearerto Manila, the telephone people therecontinued to operate the circuit witha quiet courage never to be day a calm voice asked for in-structions as how best to destroy theradio telephone equipment at the verylast minute. It added that if Maniladid not answer on schedule very soonit would signify they were dead, pris-oners or on Bataan. The speaker, thengeneral manager of the telephonecompany in the Philippines, did es-cape to Hataan, and managed to getaway at the very end. But two yearslater, while serving on General Mac-Arthurs staff, he was killed in aplane crash. With the fall of Manila came theloss ot the circuit to the few months later, as the Japs drovesouth, the circuit with Bandoeng,Java, went down, the Dutch keepingit going until, at the very last minute,they destroyed their stations. By early 1942, while service toSouth America an
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