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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 -- 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) -- 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. By George Raynor Thompson... [et Al.]. Shipping List No.: 2004-0187-p. No Longer Available For Sale By The Supt. Of Docs. First Printed 1957. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [566]-571) And Index.