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World War II Battlefield Communications

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Elite - 20th Century - World War II

Last Stocked on 4/6/2023

Product Info

Title
World War II Battlefield Communications
Publisher
Category
Author
Gordon Rottman
Publish Year
2010
Pages
64
Dimensions
7x10x.2"
NKG Part #
2147430762
MFG. Part #
OSPELI181
Type
Softcover
Series
ELI181

Description

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.

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