Gordon L. Rottman / Peter Dennis
overview
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