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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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command included air squadrons located at PopeField near Fort Bragg, Maxton Field at Maxton, N. C, andKnoUwood Field at Southern Pines, together with anti-aircraftartillery, machine gun, searchlight and other special units ofthe Army. The 51st Signal Battalion from Fort Monmouth,New Jersey, commanded by Major Harry E. Storms, wascharged with the operation of military communications underthe technical direction of Colonel Thomas C. Spencer, SignalOfficer for the Blue forces. Dotted over 20,000 square miles of eastern North Carolina,in an area extending from the Virginia boundary on the northto a point near Wilmington on the south and inland for from100 to 150 miles, civilian and other non-military observers wereon the alert to detect the approach of hostile aircraft and warnthe defending troops. These observers, a hastily organizedstaff of some 2,000 farmers, merchants, doctors, lawyers andhousewives, were the eyes and ears of a far-fiung aircraftwarning net spread over 39 counties. 3
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A WAR GAME TEST OF TELEPHONE SERVICE A Test of Commercial Telephone Systems The entire terrain covered by the exercises was divided intothree Aircraft Warning Zones and further subdivided intoeight-mile squares, 319 of them. At or near the center of eachsquare an observation post ( OP ) was located. Each OP,with the exception of seven provided with radio equipments ofthe Army Signal Corps, Coast Guard ships or amateurs, wasconnected by regular commercial telephone service with thenearest telephone exchange. In most OPs, as in the 46 postslocated on the tops of lookout towers of the Forestry Servicesand those in Coast Guard stations along the coast, telephoneconnections already in use for normal peacetime service wereutilized. These telephones were used by observers in report-ing, through normal exchange and toll connections of the 20commercial telephone companies operating in the area, to theappropriate Zone Message Centers, manned by the Army andestablished at New Bern, Wilson and Fa

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