Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Possibly for visibility reasons; it is a common signal in maneuvers showing that a combat unit has been refereed out of action...
...Show. To take Burma's capital Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten had mounted his biggest combined operation of the Pacific war. To the north of the city Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim's land forces awaited the go signal. British East Indies Fleet units, standing in to the Gulf of Martaban, shelled the flatlands south of Rangoon. Paratroops floated down south of Rangoon to smooth the way for amphibious forces. Far to the southwest, in the Bay of Bengal, aircraft carriers and battleships carried out strikes on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to prevent interference with...
...Army Signal Corps: a sound recording system for sending spoken messages by carrier pigeon. The recording is on film, so thin that a 36,000-word message (two hours' dictation) can be carried by one pigeon. The film is edible, so that it can be eaten by its receiver to prevent its capture by the enemy...
Mercurochrome & Ink. The Russians on the other side of the Elbe- members of Marshal Konev's 58th Guards Division-sent up colored flares, the prearranged signal to designate friendly forces. Robertson had no flares. He took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...
...handing out so many top priori ties for reconversion tools and minor new construction that it is confident the plants will be ready when the signal comes...