Someone in the Army Service Forces, which thinks of everything, thought that U.S. invasion troops would need a lot of telephone poles. Two years ago troops had scarcely landed on North Africa when ships and trucks arrived laden with poles from the U.S., poles from Argentina, native poles 8,000 in assorted sizes from 20 to 40 feet.
Signal Corps Lieut. John Johnson, of Atlanta, Ga., and others took a baffled ' look at what A.S.F. had sent, and hurried on. Combat units merely unroll their telephone wires along the ground or string...
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