Word: signalmen
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Died. Major General George Glas Sandeman Carey, 81, whose nondescript force of some 3,000 clerks, signalmen, and U.S. railway engineers prevented a breakthrough to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918; in Portsmouth, England. Moving quickly as the Germans threatened, Carey and his motley crew held out for six days until relieved. It earned him a personal commendation before Parliament from Prime Minister Lloyd George...
Brigadier General George Olmstead, war-plans officer, organized many paratroop teams (six men to a team) consisting of Army & Navy volunteers, mostly medical personnel and signalmen. Each team was equipped with a radio and 500 Ibs. of concentrated foods and medicine. Included in most groups: at least one man who had worked as an Allied spy, maintained communication with U.S., British and Dutch prisoners in the Jap camps scattered from Manchuria to Indo-China...
...officers, counting up recent gains, judged that the enemy's final stand could not be far off. Meanwhile the 281st Signal Platoon had discovered yet a new enemy. Armed with automatic shotguns, the signalmen were out hunting falcons. The falcons had been maliciously pouncing on U.S. carrier pigeons...
When the enemy broke through, eight of the signalmen and three other soldiers, with Tuffy along, had to hide in a cellar for ten hours as German armor rolled through the town. Panzermen were stationed in the house overhead. Two Germans looked into the cellar but saw nothing. They heard nothing, either, because Tuffy seemed to be holding his breath like his buddies...
Then Tuffy thought the danger was over and began to bark playfully. The signalmen tried to quiet him, but Tuffy took it for play, and barked again. There was a quick council, conducted in monosyllables, then one of Tuffy's masters reached out in the dark and strangled him. The silence in the cellar was deeper and heavier than ever...