Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although House grid practices this week have been light and confined easily to conditioning work and signal drills, assistant athletic director Adolf Samborski expects that by the first of next week, at least a hundred men will be working...
Laden with assorted cameras, the Signal Corps G.I.s of the 165th this week were again pressing close to the front, ducking fire with the infantry. As usual, their twofold mission was: 1) to bring back news pictures of U.S. troops in action; 2) to record as many battle details as possible for the War Department archives. Like scores of similar companies on other battlefronts, they had had a high proportion of casualties (seven dead, 14 wounded, three captured out of 62).* But their work had paid off by helping to make the battles of World War II the best understood...
...with some 35-mm. negatives, then watched the bemused bird head off for the enemy lines. Weeks later he saw reproductions of his pictures on the front page of a German army newspaper found in Cherbourg. Under them was the legend: "Photos by 1st Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...Distinguished Service Cross. Of the 62 men in the 165th, two others have won the Silver Star, six have won the Bronze Star, and one sergeant has been promoted on the battlefield to second lieutenant. But most of the recognition they receive is an anonymous Credit line: U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...These were all placed around the ballroom in front of the benches reserved for chaperons and unlucky girls who had no partners. The leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through the first bars of the waltz . . . and then separated, the lady choosing a man from those seated around the room, the man choosing a lady, with whom the figure was danced. . . . Girl...