The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . The Frecourt Detail and Barracks 84 THE FIRST BATTALION the men of the Battalion on the jump. When the advance details from theDivisions arranged with the Signal Corps for the telephone equipment, it waseasy to obtain comfortable billets for the Signal men but as the signal workneared completion, the warm welcome quickly Hotel de Ville at Vaucouleurs When the detail which had been assigned to provide telephones for theSecond Division at Bourmont completed the job, orders were received toprepare the Vaucoul
The First battalion, the story of the 406th telegraph battalion, Signal corps . The Frecourt Detail and Barracks 84 THE FIRST BATTALION the men of the Battalion on the jump. When the advance details from theDivisions arranged with the Signal Corps for the telephone equipment, it waseasy to obtain comfortable billets for the Signal men but as the signal workneared completion, the warm welcome quickly Hotel de Ville at Vaucouleurs When the detail which had been assigned to provide telephones for theSecond Division at Bourmont completed the job, orders were received toprepare the Vaucouleurs area for the Forty-second Division. Immediately,Brittain with his platoon moved to that town. Division Headquarters wasto be established in the Hotel de Ville, which contained a number of beautifulstatues. The citizens had carefully fitted all the statuary with paper fig leaves,so as not to shock the modesty of the shrinking violets from America. Dad Murdaugh built a distributing frame in the loft of this building,while Ed Hannam installed and then operated the switchboard until it couldbe taken over by the Division. Leading over to the railroad along whichthe main trunks ran, a homemade cable of twenty-five pairs of ordinaryinsulated wire was strung. Tritle was the leader in the wall-scaling job offestooning this cable to the French house fixtures. Ladders were at a premiumand Safety Superinten
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