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Word: signalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many reasons for the swift U.S. success, not the least was the Filipinos themselves, whose guerrillas had been harassing Jap command posts, spying on sea movements, running weather stations and flashing messages to U.S. listening posts. Since the fall of 1942, when a weak radio signal was received in Australia from Panay, Douglas MacArthur had been supplying the rebels by submarine. Last week the guerrilla chief on Leyte and Samar, lithe, impassive Colonel Ruperto Kangleon claimed that his men had killed 3,800 Japs in the past year. Kangleon's chief of staff was a U.S PT-boat officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Place to Run to | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...barely ended, many U.S. citizens last week were seeing for themselves a lot of what had happened at Aachen. For the excellent photographic coverage of the First Army campaign in newspapers and newsreels, most of the credit belonged to the small, brave group of men comprising the 165th Signal Photography Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: War through a Lens | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Walker's words flashed across 7,000 miles of ocean via U.S. Army Signal Corps circuits to San Francisco. And there the monitors of the Blue Network picked them up-recorded them-wrote them down-and wired them east by fast overland telegraph-to reach TIME'S editors in New York in less than an hour's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...point the St. Roch broke out the blue ensign to signal a settlement of Aleuts. The Aleuts refused to answer until the St. Rock ran up the Stars & Stripes. They thought their visitor was a Jap ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE ARCTIC: Northwest Passage, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device: at the set time it jams the controls and throws the bomb into a steep dive at its target. To check on accuracy, wind drift, etc., the Nazis equipped every tenth bomb with a radio signal (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How the Robomb Works | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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