Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approved by Signal Corps...
Designed to help Physics students make themselves more valuable to the country's armed forces, the program has been approved by Colonel King of the Army Signal Corps. As the situation stands now, the Signal Corps will admit Juniors and Seniors enrolled in the field to the enlisted reserve. When these students receive their degree, they will be given officers' commissions, provided they pass the Army's physical requirements...
...Commandomen split up into patrols and fanned out to cut Nazi communications, searchlights picked up the British speedboats, and soon tracer bullets. Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them. German flak (antiaircraft) ships moved in to the attack. Ashore, while whistles blew and signal lights blinked, the Commandomen moved silently about their business...
With an eye to the technical advances of the military art as well as to the fortunes of war, Corregidor can observe another anniversary this week. Forty-four years ago, on May Day, Commodore George Dewey slipped in past The Rock on a starlit night. A signal light from The Rock flashed the warning of his fleet's approach, but only a gun on El Fraile (now Fort Drum) spat futilely at the Olympia and her following ships. Next morning the Spanish fleet, cornered like huddled rabbits off Cavite, was bashed to bits...
...test on Sunday is, therefore, intended to determine if people are capable of making the distinction between the test signal and the real signal without becoming panicky and without disturbing the air raid workers' practice. Consequently, Sunday's warning will consist of a series of three short blasts repeated for two minutes as contrasted with a series of five blasts, which would signify an actual raid...