1941 U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS " BASIC SIGNAL COMMUNICATION " FIELD TELEPHONE SYSTEM SETUP 17134

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  • @bobcohen1075
    @bobcohen1075 3 роки тому +12

    My dad was in the signal corps in the Philippines WWII. He didn’t talk much about it except the climbing up & down trees stringing lines. He kept the climbing gaffs. He once ran up a tel pole to show me how it was done. An old memory. Thx.

  • @maxscott3349
    @maxscott3349 3 роки тому +10

    Got to love that badass camouflage. That's how you hide a truck

  • @HogRebel
    @HogRebel 10 місяців тому +4

    My Dad was a teletype repairman in the Korean War, and he had his insignia from the Signal Corps in a box with his ribbons, etc

  • @rrodriguez7285
    @rrodriguez7285 2 роки тому +4

    Outstanding video! The information in this video is still valid and if SHTF this information will be priceless!

  • @sonofadeadmeme
    @sonofadeadmeme 2 роки тому +2

    my grandfather was in the signal company in the 82nd airborne, he was at the battle of the bulge and d-day

  • @commosection
    @commosection 3 роки тому +5

    I did the same job in the Army in the early 80's but these guys in this video had much more complex was of doing there job. Cool video thank god this technology (Wire commo) is obsolete but lasted about 40 plus years.

    • @christopherrowley7506
      @christopherrowley7506 2 роки тому

      it's still used in some niche circumstances where you can't risk your radio signal getting pinned down. I've also heard voice powered phones are still used on Navy ships since you can have completely power-less communications

    • @twofacedgaming6362
      @twofacedgaming6362 10 місяців тому

      When I was in Korea last year we still used line phones for special circumstances

  • @kimberlykasimoff1447
    @kimberlykasimoff1447 2 роки тому +2

    I was 31Q. We erected the dish, of course maintained the generator and radio equipment and spent our shifts in the tent that was attached to the radio van. Last station, Ft. Monmouth, N.J..

  • @JerryEricsson
    @JerryEricsson 4 роки тому +25

    This film could well have been showed in 1970 when I attended the Field Wire-man Course at Fort Leonardwood Mo prior to my deployment to Vietnam. The only thing that seemed a bit out of place, of course were the uniforms that the troops wore, and the wire had been upgraded to the steel/copper combination for added strength and conductivity. Good old WD-1 field wire was great for overhead strength or underwater deployment as it had a plastic overcoat to keep out the moister that was the enemy of field wire. The design of a proper splice was indeed an art form that each wire-man had to perfect before moving on, the square knot tied off with the copper wires in a splice that could be covered by the little fingernail of the instructor. Proper taping was essential to maintain the integrity of the wire. I learned all that shit, then when I got to Vietnam, I sat in front of a switchboard for hours on end patching calls all over the country. So I volunteered to move on, becoming a teletype operator, then a signal chief, and well it goes on does it now. A fellow can go far in this mans army till Jimmy Carter came along and screwed it all up.

    • @iwasherenowiamnotok8893
      @iwasherenowiamnotok8893 4 роки тому +4

      In1975 Signal school was in FortGordon Georgia. I did Basic at Fort Lenardwood Missouri.

    • @billr2375
      @billr2375 Рік тому

      Did Basic and AIT at Jackson, summer of 74'...36k20 mos--Field Wireman. Sent to Germany, did everything they did in this video, plus radio operation, Enrcrypted messaging, Teletype, switchboard, pole climbing, and any and everything else that came along...Baumholder Germany 8th Infantry division.@@iwasherenowiamnotok8893

    • @scottspradley1349
      @scottspradley1349 8 місяців тому +2

      I trained at Fort Gordon, Georgia in 77

  • @Chris-lh7wj
    @Chris-lh7wj Рік тому +7

    Both my grandfathers were in the USMC in pacific, one a rifleman, the other laid telephone wire. I always assumed the one working with telephones had it easier, only to find out he often did it under heavy fire sometimes completely defenseless before the front line even arrived, and even lost several of his buddies.

    • @chessthecat
      @chessthecat Рік тому

      Before the front? That doesn't seem to make sense.

  • @LewdCustomer
    @LewdCustomer 4 роки тому +5

    The WWI Army helmets updated slightly in '36-'37 then changed in 1941 to WWII style. War began end of '41. Combat officially lasted 40 months for US. Of course, wars then got to be an ongoing habit.

  • @jaminova_1969
    @jaminova_1969 3 роки тому +7

    My Grandfather was a lineman in the Army signal corp. 94th Infantry. He went to England, France, and Germany during WW2.

  • @kellygraham4086
    @kellygraham4086 5 років тому +41

    We're going need these "obsolete"methods of communication if cell service is cut off for any length of time. Take heed my brothers and sisters.

    • @moodydude565
      @moodydude565 4 роки тому +3

      Better start laying down lan cable. Cuz it takes waaaay to long to send a .jpeg through shortwave

    • @WW5RM
      @WW5RM 3 роки тому +2

      @@moodydude565 we will just have to stick to text only messages.
      WW5RM

    • @texasgonzo67
      @texasgonzo67 3 роки тому +2

      Was about to say... CB/Ham doesn't need no stinkin' badges... err, wires between sets atleast. Tuning up my Big Galaxy DX88HL and modded Cobras' lately myself.

    • @deepbludude4697
      @deepbludude4697 2 роки тому

      Absolutely, I used to do outside plant work in the 80s our saying was you can have all sorts of comms... satcom, UHF/VHF/, fiber, wideband but at the end it still has to go thru copper.

  • @bobpatrick7152
    @bobpatrick7152 2 роки тому

    nice old film

  • @eogg25
    @eogg25 9 місяців тому +1

    My father in-law was a wireman from Normandy to Germany, I was a Morse code radio Op after the war eleven years later in Germany.

  • @alexmontgomery255
    @alexmontgomery255 4 роки тому +7

    The way those soldiers were handling that wire it’s got to be pretty tough.

  • @VikrantSingh-se2zb
    @VikrantSingh-se2zb 6 місяців тому

    Thanks a lot.❤

  • @milesprower6641
    @milesprower6641 4 роки тому +11

    I would like to know more about this "loading coil" they talk about

    • @charletonzimmerman4205
      @charletonzimmerman4205 4 роки тому +2

      Loading coil, is Transformer, "Installing a power" current, a "TONE" on the line, a BASE SIGNAL, that "TALK" current, increases, much like AM Radio.

    • @texasgonzo67
      @texasgonzo67 3 роки тому +2

      Should be just a simple coil that does what coils do... either step up or step down voltage. In this case it would be to step things up every mile or so. ☺

  • @2LV855
    @2LV855 5 років тому +10

    I really like the world war 2 vehicles and the world war 1 helmets.

    • @keyweststeve3509
      @keyweststeve3509 5 років тому +10

      Then you'd have really liked the WWII rations and helmets in Vietnam. They don't just throw that stuff away you know. Those "world war 1 helmets" were standard issue at the beginning of WWII.

    • @Spideryote
      @Spideryote 3 роки тому

      Not shown in the film
      But half-tracks are beautiful

    • @RMJTOOLS
      @RMJTOOLS 2 роки тому

      The early WW2 helmets were called “Brodie Helmets”. They were designed in WW1 specifically for trench warfare. Often in trenches troops were showered with shrapnel from the endless shelling and the wide brim did a good job fending the pieces off.

  • @worddunlap
    @worddunlap 5 років тому +6

    I did this job 36K and it wasn't much like this for us but they did hit a couple points. I'd have liked to have seen them get into the splicing more and what happens when the wire is sabotaged for the party later.

    • @BRYDN_NATHAN
      @BRYDN_NATHAN 5 років тому

      Awesome thank s

    • @richardmanns3012
      @richardmanns3012 4 роки тому +3

      I also was 36K stationed at Fort Ord. HHC 1st Brigade 7th Infantry Devision. Field lineman pretty much obsolete by time I got out in 83. Switched over to Bridge Engineer when I went over to the Reserves. Kind of had fun though when I look back on doing that work. We never used the climbing gaffs, but still used old TA312 phones and SB86 and SB22 (I think the model number) switchboards. Learning to tie a special knot in the hybrid steel and copper stranded wire to make a splice was about as technical as the job got.

    • @cavman7
      @cavman7 4 роки тому

      You're welcome :) ua-cam.com/video/Y2Q62yUL0hk/v-deo.html

  • @allenmiddendorff2068
    @allenmiddendorff2068 2 роки тому

    Nice

  • @rohnkd4hct260
    @rohnkd4hct260 Місяць тому

    My father was “signal man” in WWII. He installed wire lines, he probably. Watched this movie 😀

  • @clockmonkey
    @clockmonkey 4 роки тому +4

    And there was me thinking signallers just sat in a room tapping out messages.

  • @igorsinger3455
    @igorsinger3455 2 роки тому +1

    almost at the end of the existence of the Soviet Union, I served in such troops. Now on the battlefield of the modern war that is going on in Ukraine, such a connection looks archaic like a sling against a drone

  • @celewign
    @celewign 5 років тому +5

    From flag and torch in the civil warrrrrrrrrr to signal satellites afarrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    • @Beaguins
      @Beaguins 4 роки тому

      If you mean the US Civil War, don't forget that telegraph wires were heavily used in that war. Laying your own wires and cutting your enemy's wires was a full-time job for some Civil War signallers. I suspect much of what these WW2 signal corps troops knew about laying wire was learned in the Civil War, though in this case they were dealing with telephone as well as telegraph.

  • @scottspradley1349
    @scottspradley1349 8 місяців тому

    I was a field wireman in Germany 77-80

  • @Spookieham
    @Spookieham 5 років тому +7

    I'd have thought doing this in Europe after D-Day would have been a suicide mission unless well behind the front line.

    • @RolloTonéBrownTown
      @RolloTonéBrownTown 3 роки тому

      You'd think it would be a field day for enemy snipers covering the retreat. I think they had primitive radio also

    • @VidkunQL
      @VidkunQL 2 роки тому

      Look up General Patton's speech to the Third Army, for his story of a man stringing wire high up on a telegraph pole during the advance on Tunis.

    • @darylmorning
      @darylmorning Рік тому +1

      ​@@VidkunQL I heard that story from the grandson(?) about his flippant reply and then finding out that who he had responded to was General Patton. I love a good story but it's better when you hear both sides.

  • @mikeburch2998
    @mikeburch2998 5 років тому +6

    So just to get this straight.... We won't run the wires over the track but below it? Do I have this right? :-)

    • @craigwall9536
      @craigwall9536 5 років тому +3

      They said _if_ it can't be run *OVERHEAD*, _then_ you run it under the track.

  • @kingfish4575
    @kingfish4575 2 роки тому

    Whats the Morse in the beginning say?

    • @RiverSongFox
      @RiverSongFox 8 місяців тому

      Two years late, but it says "basic signal communication"

  • @sammin5764
    @sammin5764 2 роки тому

    🇺🇸

  • @fergland1
    @fergland1 Рік тому

    31k mos

  • @jma8352
    @jma8352 3 роки тому +2

    my uncle died in north africa setting up a switchbord

    • @dascorncakes1151
      @dascorncakes1151 3 роки тому +1

      im sorry for your loss sir

    • @jma8352
      @jma8352 3 роки тому +1

      @@dascorncakes1151 thank you kindly! i was born in 56 so i never got to meet him but looking forward to in heaven. blessings to you and all who gave all!!!

  • @mackfisher4487
    @mackfisher4487 3 роки тому +1

    These must be actors, as no Army personnel ever move that fast even if an officer is present.

  • @charlybrown9024
    @charlybrown9024 5 років тому +7

    I do not believe they run so much and make everything so swiftly when there was no camera filming them. I think the footage would seem more realistic if they were doing things at normal speed, not as if there were a sergeant yelling at them all the time. Funny.

    • @keyweststeve3509
      @keyweststeve3509 5 років тому +8

      This is a training film. They are demonstrating it the way it's SUPPOSED to be done. Considering there was always a chance they could encounter an enemy patrol while being lightly armed and exposed I wouldn't be surprised if they regularly moved along as fast as they could.

    • @sargintrock2538
      @sargintrock2538 4 роки тому +2

      @@danjarvis6980 I'll never ferget a Navy Chief stating that no matter how rough and tough you are, when yer arse gets wider than yer shoulders you are a "candy ass"!

  • @DonaldBHeyJR-u9l
    @DonaldBHeyJR-u9l 18 днів тому

    All Donal an' elon

  • @marc-andrebrunet5386
    @marc-andrebrunet5386 3 роки тому +1

    🤔I think that all these videos should be on a Swiss knife ! 💡

  • @codygranrud6212
    @codygranrud6212 5 років тому +1

    🦅🇺🇸

  • @emelitoduran1571
    @emelitoduran1571 3 роки тому

    This must be what they do in Bataan, preparing for the Japanese

  • @DonaldBHeyJR-u9l
    @DonaldBHeyJR-u9l 18 днів тому

    Are you daft ? I am clear as a bell.

  • @Chungustav
    @Chungustav 3 роки тому

    This video was made by someone who was never in combat. You can tell by the instructions to tag your wire and labeling it with all your information.

  • @Moronvideos1940
    @Moronvideos1940 3 роки тому

    Get rid of that dumb counter on the screen

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  3 роки тому +5

      Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
      In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous UA-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
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    • @RolloTonéBrownTown
      @RolloTonéBrownTown 3 роки тому +1

      There should be a stickied comment on every video explaining why it has to be there. Ppl complain about this on every video!

    • @umenhuman7573
      @umenhuman7573 Рік тому

      @@PeriscopeFilm some of these films, like the basic electronics ones, should be funded for use in government schools and used as recommended / required viewing as part of science carriculum ... its not like students don't have access to computers or teachers need to set up a projector ... just a thought