In most areas of theĮast, from Ledo to Noumea, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, signal units had to bring everything with them, all the radioĪnd wire the Army required for both headquarters and field use. Regularly rehabilitated and then heavily used facilities that had long served the European nations. This circumstance differed distinctly from operations in Europe, where the Signal Corps Far more often than not they operated in regions where there had existed previously noĬommunications facilities. There were times when Signal Corps men operated their circuits for the Army from stations afloat, or ashore jointly with Cooperation and coordination with naval and air commands figured even larger here than they did in the west. With problems of water and air movements over enormous distances, measured in the thousands of miles rather than in the Instead, the theaters in theĮast received relatively small forces and little equipment, all widely dispersed. In relatively small land areas-were seldom approached in the eastern arenas of war. West-in signal matters the massive supply of equipment, specialists, and communications services for large armies The circumstances and problems, however, differed. In the two halves of the globe signal officers and their Signal Corps troop units served within a similar With the relatively compact homogeneous theaters of war in the west against Germany.
In the Orient the struggle with the Japanese sprawled over an immense and varied expanse of the globe, overĬontinental land masses and ocean islands, from the eastern Pacific to India. Home Table of Contents Previous: Chapter 5 Next: Chapter 7
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