ELI181: World War II Battlefield Communications

Author
Gordon L Rottman

Author
Peter Dennis

About this book
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

Paperback; June 2010; 64 pages; ISBN: 9781846038471