Signal 09 1946

No single activity is as much a part of all military activity as communications and, in World War II, communications ranked with rifles and rations and ammunition and other indispensable combat factors. Commanders in every theatre repeatedly emphasized the fact that success in battle depended on the effectiveness of communications personnel and equipment to insure prompt transmittal of orders and the immediate translation of those orders into coordinated action. It was a long way from the War Department in Washington to a rifleman at the front or to an airplane soaring over distant lands. But they were linked by an unbroken chain of command which sprang from endless days of planning and training and from the courage and skill of thousands of communications troops in the Ground Forces, the Air Forces and the Signal Corps. From the higher commands down through the Division, the Signal Corps provides the communications system. Within the divisional infantry and artillery units, the establishment and operation of communications is performed by officers and men of the Ground Forces.
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