| TITLE: |
The Signal Corps : the test (December 1941 to July 1943) / by George Reynor Thomspn .. [et al.]. |
| AUTHOR: |
Thompson, George Raynor. |
| SERIES: |
United States Army in World War II. The technical services |
| SERIES: |
CMH pub. ; 10-7 |
| SERIES: |
United States Army in World War II. Technical services. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Washington, Center of Military Hisotry, United States Army, 2003. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xv, 621 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| NOTES: |
No longer available for sale by the Supt. of Docs. |
| NOTES: |
"First printed 1957" |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [556]-571) and index. |
| NOTES: |
December 1941: War in the Philippines. The impact of war in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer -- The call for troops (January-February 1942): Plans for getting enlisted men. Plans for getting officers. Getting civilians -- The call for equipment (January-May 1942): Radio for mobile armies and for world communication. Radio Airborne. Radar into the air for interception and search. Ground radar: the continuing exigencies of coastal defense -- The first months of the war overseas (January-May 1942): Toward Pacific outposts. China-Burma-India vicissitudes -- Alaska communications (January-July 1942): The command network. Kodiak, Otter Point, Dutch Harbor. The Alcan Highway. Canol and the Northwest Ferry Route. Communications for ground and air warning systems -- The first billion dollar Signal Corps (January-July 1942): The training structure. Camp Crowder. Camp Kohler. Fort Monmount. Camp Murphy -- |
| NOTES: |
Signal equipment: wire and radio (June-October 1942): Toward automatic teletype and tape relay, transformed by FM. Signal Corps provides VHF command radio for army airplanes -- Signal equipment: radar (June-October 1942): Airborne radars on the increase. IFF--Identification: friend or foe ; Signal Corps altimeters: Secretary Patterson's Objections ; AI--Airborne Interception Radar ; ASV--Air-to-Surface-Vessel Microwave Radar -- Ground radar potentialities multiplied by microwave techniques. SCR-296, Seacost Artillery Fire Control Radar ; SCR-582, Harbor Surveillance Radar ; SCR-615, Microwave Radar for GCI, ground-controlled interception ; SCR-602, Lightweight Warning Radar ; SCR-584, Microwave Tracking of GL, goun-laying radar ; MEW, Microwave Early Warning Radar -- Accumulating strength over the world (June-October 1942): Buold-up for the Air Forces in the Northeast. Radars for aircraft warning. Defense to offense in the West -- Preparing for the first major test (June-November 1942) -- |
| NOTES: |
The test at issue in North Africa (November 1942-May 1943):Stabilizing TORCH communications. New developments in combat communications. Signal Corps radars meet the test of warr -- Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps (January 1942-mid-1943): Combat photography: early units and problems. The Training Film Program. Summary: the status of APS at mid-year 1943 -- Global Communications (late 1942-mid-1943): The design for ACAN -- The technical service a supply service (late 1942-mid-1943) : Technical specialization vs. mass supply. The shrinking labor market. International aide. The shifting emphasis in procurement. The increasing importance of the distribution system -- Signal Corps position in mid-1943 (May-June 1943) : The situation at home and overseas. Headquarters crisis over supply and control problems. |
| SUBJECT: |
United States. Army. Signal Corps. |
| SUBJECT: |
World War, 1939-1945--Communications. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Center of Military History. |
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