Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cruft Laboratory added emergency instructors and intensive courses in Russian and Japanese were announced, setting the scene for the invasion of servicemen that was due soon. The Navy Supply Corps School had been at the Business School since before Pearl Harbor, and Signal Corps officers were already studying at the laboratories...
...Roosevelt served notice last week that he would ask Congress to pass a postwar compulsory universal service law this winter. Franklin Roosevelt carefully avoided the word "military," suggested that training might be along the lines of the old Civilian Conservation Corps. Nevertheless the President's words were the signal that a long-threatening battle was finally being joined...
...bomb the airplane factory center of Omura, on Kyushu Island. The Japs had no way of knowing that these China- based planes had been ordered by radio to swing over to secondary targets when the weather turned bad, but had failed to receive the message. Squadrons which received the signal bombed Nanking and Shanghai instead...
...From Leyte in the Philippines, the Army Signal Corps was ready to transmit Douglas MacArthur's afternoon communiqué. Leyte's first words: "Have you anything on the election yet?" The answer: "Not yet." Said Leyte: "Just break in when you have anything." Then came the communiqu...
Athletic Commander McCampbell began winning marksmanship medals when he was in his teens. A Naval Academy graduate, he served as signal officer on the old carrier Wasp when she was ferrying planes to Malta, in the early days of the war, and was aboard her when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal in 1942. As fighter pilots go, veteran David McCampbell is an elderly man: he was born in Bessemer, Ala. 34 years...