"First printed 1966"--T.p. verso. Shipping list no.: 2009-0038-S. Includes bibliographical references (p. [671]-673) and index. U.S. G.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication.
Contents:
1: Looking Toward The Theaters Of Combat -- Signal Corps Organization and status, mid-1943 -- Signal Corps mission in the theater of operations -- Summary -- 2: Signal Corps In Sicily And Italy -- Signal section, AFHQ -- Sicily campaign -- Italian campaign -- 3: Signal Corps In The ETO: To Mid-1944 -- Invasion plans and preparations -- Invasion -- 4: Signal Corps In The ETO: To V-E Day-I -- Signal techniques with the armies -- Invasion of southern France -- Continental communications system -- 5: Signal Corps in the ETO: V-E Day-II -- Signal supply problems in the ETO -- Communications in the Ardennes counteroffensive -- Closing months of the campaign -- 6: Signal Corps In The CBI -- CBI signal officers and their problems -- Calcutta-Kunming pole line -- Combat communications -- 7: Signal Corps In The South And Central Pacific -- South Pacific area -- Central Pacific area -- 8: Communications In The Southwest Pacific: To Mid-1944 -- Unique over-all control of the SWPA signal officer -- Task force communications by co-ordination -- Signal Corps in jungle operations -- Radio relay and communications ships to Hollandia -- Signal supply from Australia to jungle beaches -- 9: Communications In The Pacific: To V-J Day -- Underground in the Philippine Islands -- Afloat and ashore at Leyte and Luzon -- Okinawa to Tokyo -- 10: Electronic Combat: Countermeasures -- Radar and radio countermeasures, a new arena of conflict -- Organizing for RCM -- RCM equipment and the laboratories -- Some RCM problems -- RCM units on the ground and ferrets in the air -- RCM in the attack -- RCM for CROSSBOW -- RCM to the war's end -- Signal Corps restricted to ground RCM -- RCM's status in 1945 -- 11: Signal Security And Intelligence -- Evolution and development of the signal security intelligence activity -- Signal security and intelligence in World War II -- Signal security and intelligence transferred to general staff -- 12: Signal Corps Production At Full Tide -- Organizational improvements -- Requirements -- Effect of overseas procurement on Signal Corps requirements -- Developments in production control measures, 1944-45 -- Crisis in wire and batteries: a case study in supply -- Summary -- 13: Distributing Signal Supplies On A Worldwide Scale -- Storage operations -- Stock control measures: mid-1943 to 1945 -- Protecting and maintaining signal equipment -- Evaluation and summary -- 14: Equipment: The Laboratories-AAF Items And Their Transfer -- Cutbacks in laboratory personnel and projects -- Equipment problems -- Transfer of communications equipment responsibilities to the AAF -- Signal Corps research and development at war's end -- 15: Equipment: Elaborations And Developments To V-J Day -- Few examples-from wire equipment to electronic fuzes -- Missile controls -- Meteorology -- Microwave radars on the ground, AN/CPS-1 and -6 and SCR-584 -- SCR-584 radar, VT fuzes, and the buzz bomb -- SCR-584 modifications -- Airborne microwave radars -- Radios -- Equipment situation at the end of the war -- 16: Innovations In Signal Training -- Military manpower -- Military personnel procurement, 1944-45 -- Training -- Summary -- 17: Army Photography At Home And Overseas -- Army pictorial service organization and mission -- Problems of policy and production control -- Motion picture services -- Still pictures -- Photographic equipment supply and research -- Photographic troops -- Summary -- 18: Signaling The World -- ACAN facilities and techniques -- Telecommunication group conference facilities -- Communications for VIP conferences -- Expansion through V-J Day -- Special services -- Around-the-world belt line -- 19: Army Signal Situation At War's End -- OCSigO organization in 1945 -- Some continuing questions of mission -- Toward the future: shooting for the moon -- In retrospect: a summary -- Appendix: Signal Corps equipment, World War II -- Bibliographical note -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Code names -- Index.
Summary:
From the Preface: With this volume, third and last in the Signal Corps subseries, the authors close the book on the history of the Corps in World War II. They close it to the extent that they hereby complete the account as published in the UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II histories. But they hope that this volume, subtitled The Outcome, together with its predecessors, The Emergency, to Pearl Harbor Day, and The Test, to mid-1943, may open up to the military specialist, and to the general reader as well, new vistas of significance in the immense and complex scene of signal communications and electronics in World War II. The Signal Corps: The Outcome, continuing the chronological treatment generally followed throughout this subseries, depicts the entire activity of the Corps at home and overseas to V-J Day. The volume is in all respects a sequel to The Signal Corps: The Test, wherein the authors had carried the story to mid-1943. At that point in time, the Signal Corps' struggle to obtain better control over communications throughout the Army had reached a crisis in the Washington headquarters. Or rather the Corps was just subsiding, not altogether happily, from that crisis, by 1 July 1943. In the field, in North Africa, the Signal Corps had just passed its first great combat test of the war.
Series:
CMH pub ; 10-18 United States Army in World War II. The technical services
OCLC:
(OCoLC)320450527
LCCN:
64600001
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)
PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)
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