Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordance with Order Number 24 received last week, 21 ASTP Signal Corps men left Friday for the Signal Corps camp at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey...
...guides and carriers, hit off toward the Yaut River with eight days rations. By evening of the second day they reached the spot: a jungle trail through tall grasses dipping through a dry creek bed. At first light next morning Mohl placed his men like a football coach running signal practice. At 9:40 a.m. a native scout posted 400 yards ahead ran back: six Japs coming. The enemy approached cautiously, rifles at the alert, walking single file, spaced about five yards apart...
Gold braid stirred in the corner, where sat representatives of the Southeast Asia Command. "Uncle Joe's" keen eyes opened wide, flashed a danger signal. He said: "China's been blockaded for some time. Reopening communications will help China considerably. Our units there have done the impossible, something that many people here felt couldn't be done...
...this time as captain. Our first patrol was to cover one of the convoys to Russia. It was badly beaten up. The submarines were along to cover in case the Tirpitz and the Scheer came out. They did. A friend of mine in another submarine made a radio signal to say they were out, but those two great disappearers went right back in and we didn't see them again...
...first major scandal to besmirch a big-time war producer hit the headlines just over a year ago (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pawtucket, R.I., the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.* was indicted for deliberately delivering to Russia and to the U.S. Army Signal Corps equipment dangerously below standard. Last June the Fort Wayne case wound up with the maximum fine ($10,000 and costs) for Anaconda Wire, lesser fines for five officials and suspended jail sentences for three of them...