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(The World War II Signal OCS program at Fort Monmouth, from 1941–1946 graduated 21,033 Signal Corps officers.) Modern warfare utilizes three main sorts of signal soldiers. Some are assigned to specific military bases ("Base Ops"), and they are charged with installation, operation and maintenance of the base communications infrastructure along ...
The Signal Intelligence Service was a part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps for most of World War II. At that time the Signal Corps was a bureau in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, in addition to being a branch of the Army to which personnel were commissioned or appointed.
Since World War I, the Signal Corps was responsible for reporting the weather and other meteorological information to the Army for the purposes of long-range artillery and antiaircraft support, storm tracking, and general operational planning. In 1929, the Signal Corps oversaw the launch of the first radio-equipped weather balloon at Fort Monmouth.
A joint assault signal company (JASCO) was a joint service unit that provided ship to shore and air to ground communications to coordinate and control naval gunfire and close air support for American land forces during World War II. They were composed of specially trained officers and enlisted personnel from the Navy, Marines, and Army.
Terrett, Dulany. The Signal Corps: The Emergency. United States Army in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1956. Thompson, George Raynor, Dixie R. Harris, Pauline M. Oakes, and Dulany Terrett. The Signal Corps: The Test (December 1941 to July 1943). United States Army in World War II.
At its peak during World War II, Fort Monmouth measured 1,713 acres (6.93 km 2), and had billeting space for 1,559 officers and 19,786 enlisted personnel. The Eastern Signal Corps Training Center consisted of the Eastern Signal Corps Schools (enlisted, officer candidate, and officers) and the Replacement Training Center at Camp Charles Wood.
This is a list of vehicles used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps from World War I through World War II. An empty Lance wagon, possibly the K-2 used to carry "Lance" poles for telephone/telegraph wire Designations
28th Signal Battalion is a battalion of the US Army formed on 12 September 1908 in Pennsylvania as a National Guard unit at Pittsburgh as Company A, Signal Corps. It served alongside the regular army under Federal control several times, most notably during World War I, World War II, and the Cold War from 1950.