A training film on the wartime and peacetime activities of the U.S. Signal Corps. U.S. Signal Corps recruits disembark on a beach from landing barges during World War 2. The soldiers set up communications equipment and operate a EE-8 field telephone, and morse code keyer to transmit range observations. U.S. Navy sailor sends signal lamp blinker signals from a U.S. Navy ship offshore. The signal corps soldiers lay telephone wires by aircraft and truck. The telegraph and telephone poles are erected. The Chief Signal Officer seated at his desk. Exterior view of the Pentagon, and then interior views inside the Pentagon at the Pentagon signal center. Soldiers working in the signal center of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Tape machines dispense paper tapes with encoded communications. Sign "Traffic Control Army Command and Administration System" written on a board in the center. The transmission system of the message.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps in the European Theater during World War II. Signal Corps cameramen of Army Pictorial Service photograph and film an amphibious landing. The soldiers wade ashore. U.S. soldiers advance on a battlefield, firing rifles. Camera man present. Street fighting on the war front. The wall of a building leans and crashes to the ground as a U.S. Army camera man captures moving image footage on camera. U.S. soldier rips a Nazi German eagle symbol from a building and it crashes to the street. A U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 aircraft in flight , seen from beside and close up from below and beside. View of exterior of Signal Corps Photographic Center building in New York. Men working inside the Signal Corps Photographic Center in the United States. Soldiers at film cutting machines at work, and view of film canisters in storage. The production of films in the center including a segment from "Why We Fight" and one from "The Fighting Men" pictures. Several war related films, and training and orientation films are produced. The foreign version of the films are also made so that they can be seen by other countries. Scene of an American soldier speaking Japanese in a U.S. military created film. Bing Crosby singing "Accentuate the Positive" during a filmed segment for the American G.I. audience at a USO show. Elevated view of war material and equipment stacked in a massive warehouse building, with Signal Corps workers moving about in the building. Men working and placing more equipment in the building. 'MacArthur's Headquarters' written on a wooden shipping crate. Boxes of war materiel being loaded into trucks, railroad train cars, and ships for transport to the war front in World War 2. Views of various kinds of Signal Corps communication equipment, radios, transmitters, cameras, vacuum tubes and other electronic equipment that was innovated during World War II. A moisture-proof switchboard is tested in the field. A U.S. Army Signal Corps soldier holding a phone during the switchboard testing.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on radio equipment in the United States. The exterior of a U.S. Army Signal Corps building with "Squier laboratory" written outside the building. The interior of the laboratory. Engineers conducting experiments and working on various equipment for communications, including Radar, Color Radio Telephoto, and single sideband transmission for long haul radio communication. A machine that appears to be spinning and heating hot glass. An engineer operating a machine beneath a sign that says "Thermionic Shake Tests." An engineer tests various signal lights. Signal Corps men observing a radio tower. Instructors teach and demonstrate various kinds of radio relay equipment to other Signal Corps personnel. A large board reads "Multiplex terminating." An officer explains a diagram to the Signal Corps personnel. Soldiers examine disassembled radios. Demonstration of a map being transmitted to a soldier in the field via facsimile machine. Close views of a spinning drum on the facsimile machine and the map visible on it. A dramatized shot of a B-17 bomber aircraft in flight. The pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The pilot looks at the signals transmitted through the radar. The aircraft navigates with the radar in bad weather. A map locates Boston, Lynn, Nantasket and Quincy and it is compared to the radar image of the same region.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on the radio equipment in the United States. Long range forecast by the radar instruments. Men gather on a field testing weather analysis and automatic weather station forecasting instruments. Man seated in a large portable spinning radar device in the field. The instruments dropped by parachute send the weather observations details.
The United States troops setting up radar on a field in the United States. U.S. soldiers working on the sound ranging equipment. The equipment locates enemy positions. The soldiers setting up the radar. A soldier in radio room. A sign reads: 'Radio Detonator'. Soldiers working. Buildings in the background.
A radio detonator on a field in the United States. A sign reads: 'radio detonator'. Soldiers working on the equipment. A soldier presses a button on the equipment. Explosion on the ground. Aircraft in flight.
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