The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. U.S. shuttle ships loaded with signal communication supplies for U.S. and Allied troops in the European Theater make their way in the Atlantic ocean. The Squier Laboratory at Camp Alfred Vail in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. A technician works on signal communication equipment in the laboratory. U.S. soldiers use mine detectors in the European Theater during World War II. The mine detectors detect metallic, non-metallic mines, wooden box mines, and mines in glass containers. Artillery soldiers bury large microphones into the ground in advance zones. The microphones relay back information on enemy artillery. Soldiers receive the information on radio sets. U.S. aircraft on a training flight simulating real combat situation: The aircraft lost in heavy rain and rough weather, looking for the location of Boston. The pilot switches on a modern advanced radar. The radar waves pierce thick clouds, are reflected by Earth's surface and display an image on the scope. The image shows the clear location of Boston harbor directly under the aircraft. U.S. bombers attack over the Channel coast on D-Day (6 June, 1944). U.S. soldiers employ meteorological equipment for long range weather forecast in the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers release a hydrogen balloon into the sky. Another soldier uses an apparatus to take readings of atmospheric conditions behind enemy lines. An aircraft drops an automatic weather station called SCM-18-TI by parachute into enemy territory. The timed mechanism sends out weather data in codes. The interior of the automatic weather station lying open in a field.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Parachute drop-markers with radio signals guide an airborne operation in the European Theater. U.S. airborne troops board a U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota transport aircraft. A woman soldier greets the paratroopers as they prepare to board the aircraft. The paratroopers jump out and descend towards the ground. The paratroopers are furnished with markers for every dropping point. A paratrooper with a radio beacon hooked onto his belt. The beacon is the ground section of the Eureka/Rebecca transponder system. The paratrooper fixes the Eureka extension including the cable and the receiver transmitter. Animation depicts the working of the Eureka-Rebeca system. An aircraft unloads paratroopers over Normandy in France during World War II. Allied troops, landing crafts, landing ships arrive at Normandy on D-Day (6 June 1944). Soldiers wade through the water towards the shore and advance inland across the beach during Allied invasion of France.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Allied troops including Signal Corps soldiers advance inland after the Normandy landings on D Day during World War II. Soldeirs rest after establishing the Normandy beachhead. A bridge across the channel. Trucks pass over it. Ships anchored off shore. Soldiers keep a watch. A harbor destroyed due to a winter storm. Landing chips and crafts anchored along the shoreline. A barrage in flight overhead. Supplies and reinforcements on the beachhead. Damage caused due to the storm. Allied soldiers around crafts and equipment on the shore.
The First Army Signal Service Headquarters, Executive and Communication Section in France during World War 2. A soldier takes a message from the check post at the entrance. He delivers the dispatch message to the 'Master Message Center'. View of an American cipher machine ( SIGABA or Converter M-134 or ECM Mark II, akin to a German enigma machine) used to encipher or encrypt the message. Another soldier decodes the incoming messages and encodes the outgoing messages using an automatic code machine. Soldiers operate teletypes, wirelesses, telephones and radios at the Headquarters. Officers near telephone carrier equipment that provides 7 channels in all and has 2 ground simplex circuits. A messenger plane lands near the Headquarters. The pilot hands over a map to the messenger. The map is cleared through the Message Center, sent by facsimile to Intelligence. Officers then forward the information to the artillery. The designated target area on the map. Soldiers fire artillery and shell the target area.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Opening scenes show bomb damage due to German Luftwaffe blitzkrieg air raids (The Blitz) in Southern Counties of London earlier during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Firemen and rescue workers try to extinguish the fires with water hoses. The rescue workers conduct operations amidst bomb damaged buildings and rubble. Severely damaged buildings. Rubble strewn all over the streets in England. A Food Flying Squad van makes its way on the streets. Food distributed from the van. A British man walks amidst the rubble. Relief work in progress. Buckets of food and water lying at camps. Displaced civilian people eat and drink. London civilian residents evacuate numerous areas. Evacuees walk across a bridge. Big Ben seen in the background. Allied bombers in flight. Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito aircraft track and shoot down enemy aircraft. The dogfights result in mid air explosions. Two soldiers operate a U.S. radar designed to direct antiaircraft fire in combat area. The radar tracks a target moving up to 600 miles an hour. The soldiers track down aerial targets, the gun directors make adjustments and the antiaircraft guns are fired at buzz bombs. Enemy V-1 Flying bombs are hit and downed before they can reach the coastline. German V-1 rockets are tracked over England by radar and shot down. An V-1 is hit. It descends to the ground and explodes. France: A downed V-1 flying bomb is examined. The wreckage of a V-1 in a field. Soldiers and civilians near the wrecked V-1 Flying Bomb
Montage of military footage assembled to describe Joint Assault Signal Companies, in World War 2. Some inserts are inconsistent and anachronistic. Scenes of U.S. amphibious assault on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific theater. Camera focuses on small fast-moving assault boat carrying Army and Navy personnel of a Joint Assault Signal Company. A Japanese Aichi B7A Ryusei "Grace" aircraft flying low over the water in background. U.S. troops leaving an LST (Landing Ship Tank) and wading ashore. Some pushing a jeep through the surf. Members of a Joint Assault Signal Company running ashore with a spool of communications cable. Others carrying small arms climb out of an assault boat. Signal company soldiers laying communications cable as they move through jungle. Sailor aboard a U.S. warship ostensibly communicating with the signal company via light blinker. Naval gunfire bombarding enemy positions. Narrator's mention of air support is followed by anachronistic insert of U.S. Army B-10 bombers in formation flight; of bombardier in nose; and views of bombs falling. Next, a formation of B-25 Mitchell bombers is seen in flight and bombs falling. Back in the jungle, signal company men string wire on palm tree. Field artillery firing. Soldiers hunkered down in a shell hole. Signal company soldier using SCR-300-A Radio set.
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