Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auto Reflex. In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook's car blew a tire at a railroad crossing, careened down the tracks, struck a signal switch, threw a red block against an approaching freight train...
...special schools for pilots, navigators, bombardiers. At a lead crew school, selected men were trained intensively to ride the lead planes, take them in to the targets, give the signal for all planes in the formation to drop their bombs. New crews and re-educated crews trained together in practice runs on LeMay's bombing range: the bypassed island of Rota, 60 miles north of Guam...
...Army took another step in retreat from Canada's subArctic. To Winnipeg from Churchill, Manitoba's port on Hudson Bay, chugged a trainload of some 200 Army engineers, quartermasters, signal men and maintenance men. They had been holed up in dreary, chilly U.S. outposts in the far north for so long (some of them for two years) that they could be forgiven for chalking on the sides of their U.S. Pullmans: "Back To God's Country...
...overcoming tremendous obstacles to build this communications link, which serves the Stilwell Road, the pipeline and many airfields, these Signal Corps men have made an important contribution to victory over Japan and certainly should not be ignored in any discussion of the project...
Office of the Chief Signal Officer Washington