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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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r System men inJanuary as part of the315th Signal Construc-tion Battalion, Lt. Col.(. F. Callahan, a South-ern Bell district com-mercial engineer, com-manding. Twenty-nine North-western Bell reservistsresponded to their sum-mons with the 47th In-fantry, Minnesota Na-tional Guard; and 15from that Companysemployees in NorthDakota were called with the 164th Infantry of thatstates Guard. Except for the largest affiliated bat-talion, the greatest number of tele-phone Reservists included in the unitsnoted were the 76 Southwestern Bellmen called September 1, 1950, withthe 45th Division, Oklahoma Na-tional Guard, which early last Aprilwas reported to have cleared thePanama Canal en route to the PacificTheatre of Operations. In Korea The only Army reserve unit con-taining several Bell System menknown to be in Korea is the 101stSignal Corps Battalion, called to ac-tive duty in August, 1950, with 16men from the New York TelephoneCompany. It reached Korea earlylast April and at latest reports was
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U. S. ARMY PHOTO Sergeant first class Richard Schrader, non-com in charge of the wire head, IX Corps headquarters in Korea, checks newly run circuits. He is a cable splicer for the New York Telephone Company 96 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER only a few miles behind the front For the same reasons, relatively and principally engaged at restoring few of the Systems men thus far havebroken communications lines at night, faced the dust and mud, the burningExcept for this last unit and the heat and bitter cold of Korea, or theFirst Marine Division, none of the fanatical attacks of the Communist North Koreans and Chinese. Ofsome who have, we may not have re-ports of their experience for months.What can be written now of individ-ual gallantry and sacrifice, therefore,must be fragmentary—but we havelearned enough to be proud of thosefrom the System at the front. units mentioned had reached thecombat area as this was written.Generally, those units have been inthe fundamental stages of organiz

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