| Summary: | "First printed 1957." No longer available for sale by the Supt. of Docs. Shipping list no.: 2004-0187-P. Includes bibliographical references (p. [566]-571) and index. 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 war -- 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 aid. 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. Signal equipment: wire and radio (June-October 1942): Toward automatic teletype and tape relay. Ground radio and radio link or 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, Seacoast 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 or GL, gun-laying radar MEW, Microwave Early Warning Radar -- Accumulating strength over the world (June-October 1942): Build-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) -- 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 headquarters supply organization. The field organization -- Signal schooling (January-July 1942): The training structure. Camp Crowder. Camp Kohler. Fort Monmount. Camp Murphy -- Mode of access: Internet.
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