World War II Battlefield Communications

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World War II Battlefield Communications

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Osprey's examination of technological advances in communications during World War II (1939-1945). Perhaps the biggest difference in the fighting between the two World Wars lay in the invention of the man-portable radio that allowed for a greater degree of tactical coordination than ever before. Gordon L. Rottman provides an informative study of the use of small radios, field telephones, signal flares and ground-to-air signaling that revolutionized the battlefield.

Table of Contents

The state of the art in 1939 / The basic means: messengers, manpack radios, vehicle radios, field telephones, signal pistols and flares, colored smoke, air/ground signals / Capabilities and limitations / Basic procedures / Countermeasures: interception and jamming / National specifics of equipment and procedures: US, UK, Soviet, German, Japanese and wartime developments

Product details

Published Jun 22 2010
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9781846038471
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 29 b/w; 8 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Elite
Short code ELI 181
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Gordon L. Rottman

Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, vol…

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Peter Dennis

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