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With this volume Dr. Thompson and Mrs. Harris conclude the story of U.S. Army Signal Corps operations in World War II. The Outcome is largely a success story, as it picks up in 1943 and carries on past V-J Day. Of all the technical services, the Signal Corps was least prepared for war in 1941. But by mid-war the Corps was operating efficiently at home and all over the world. Even so, there were always difficulties to be overcome. Further, other agencies conducted feuds and raids. The Army Air Forces, though using Signal Corps equipment through the end of the war, was never satisfied with it. The authors have told the story with candor. The point of view is that of the Signal Corps, but the range of subject matter should prove interesting and instructive to military men and to students of both technology and public administration.… (meer)
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By the middle of 1943 the United States was heavily involved in total war. The civilian population had become accustomed to a changed mode of life. All were by now familiar with job freezes, bond drives, security restrictions, travel congestion, and interminable waits in long queues to obtain rationing stamps or to expend them for the commodities needed daily, so essential yet now so scarce. At many points the means and purposes of everyday commerce and civilian manufacture had become identical with those of the armed forces. The second great world war of the twentieth century was far from concluded, though nearing the end of its fourth year. For the United States, many months of uneasy isolation and tentative intervention before Pearl Harbor had terminated in a sudden plunge over the brink. The nation had experienced in its first eighteen months of war a brief period of confused impotence, a slightly longer period of desperate defeats, a slow growth of confidence, then a concentration upon offensives and a demonstration of the capacity to win. In mid-1943 the war was being carried to the enemy.
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Nor were Signal Corps achievements limited to the large vital assistance rendered to the Army itself, assuring the communications facilities that the commander must have in order to control his troops. The Signal Corps achievement in World War II must include, in any over-all estimate, mention also of its contribution to the civilian nation. Its co-operation and assistance boosted the relatively slight prewar electronics industry of the United States to a foremost place in the nation's economy after V-J Day. The Corps helped build new factories and uncover new supplies of raw materials, so many of which were rare, hard to discover, or refine in quantities, such as quartz crystals. It was large-scale quarrying of these, and the techniques of fabricating millions of frequency control crystals (where only very small quantities had been laboriously produced before the war) that made possible the simple push-button tuning of tens of thousands of vehicular and aircraft radios in World War II. The Signal Corps contributed thousands of new developments and inventions to the electronics technology of the era, adding greatly to the scientific skills and experience of the United States. And at the war's end it returned to civilian life and employment many tens of thousands of men and women whom it had trained in communications-electronics and who would apply their new and specialized knowledge to the immeasurable benefit of the nation's future progress.
With this volume Dr. Thompson and Mrs. Harris conclude the story of U.S. Army Signal Corps operations in World War II. The Outcome is largely a success story, as it picks up in 1943 and carries on past V-J Day. Of all the technical services, the Signal Corps was least prepared for war in 1941. But by mid-war the Corps was operating efficiently at home and all over the world. Even so, there were always difficulties to be overcome. Further, other agencies conducted feuds and raids. The Army Air Forces, though using Signal Corps equipment through the end of the war, was never satisfied with it. The authors have told the story with candor. The point of view is that of the Signal Corps, but the range of subject matter should prove interesting and instructive to military men and to students of both technology and public administration.
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