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CONTENTS & ILLUSTRATIONS of "Signals" in WW2

MIDDLE EAST AND MALAYA

Item Page Link
Foreword  5 Category index
Introduction Category index
Editorial Category index
Ack . . . 10 below
Signals Through the Ages 11 Chapter 1
Communications Are Vital in War 17 Chapter 1
A.I.F's Early Days 19 Chapter 1
Australia's First Corps Signals  21 Chapter 1
Evolution 29

Chapter 1

First C.S.0's Staff 30 Chapter 2
They Blazed the Signals Trail 34 Chapter 2
The Boys of the D.R. Run 44 Chapter 2
Seventh in Syria 47 Chapter 3
Signals in Malaya 52 Chapter 3
Sporting Stars of the Eighth 61 Chapter 4
The Letter 63 Chapter 4
Desert Campaigns of the Ninth 65 Chapter 4
Conversation Piece 70 Chapter 4
Battle of Ruin Ridge 72 Chapter 4
Reverie 74 Chapter 4
Wireless War in Tobruk 75 Chapter 5
Base Area Signals-9000 Miles from Base 78 Chapter 5
Lights o' Lebanon 79 Chapter 5
Symphony of Signals 80 Chapter 5
A.A. Signals in the Middle East  82 Chapter 5
Defenders of the West 87 Chapter 5
Horsemen in Armor  92 Chapter 6
Comforts in the Signals Manner 94 Chapter 6
Link Between Earth and Sky  96 Chapter 6
Onward March 99 Chapter 6
Photo album No.1 asstd

Chapter 7

SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC AREA

"Chiefsigs" 103 Chapter 8
Early Days of First Army Signals 107 Chapter 8
Corps Signals-Mark I-New Guinea Version  109 Chapter 8
"B" Corps Signals in New Guinea 115 Chapter 8
Jungle-Oblique-Toc 117 Chapter 9
Sentinel on the Ridge 118 Chapter 9
Defence of Milne Bay 121 Chapter 9
Line Triumph on the Kokoda Trail 125 Chapter 9
Winnie the War Winner 128 Chapter 9
A.A. and Fortress Signals in New Guinea 132 Chapter 9
Rise and Fall of a Lance-jack 133 Chapter 9
Morobe-Lae Carrier Route 135 Chapter 10
Second Div. Recall the Good Old Days 140 Chapter 10
Esprit de Cable  141 Chapter 10
Growth of the Third  142 Chapter 10
Golden Voices of New Guinea   143 Chapter 10
Japs Outfought on Tiny Island  148 Chapter 10
Salamaua Was Full of Beans  149 Chapter 10
Chapter of the Fourth 150 Chapter 10
Lucky Escape 152 Chapter 11
Leaping Lena  153 Chapter 11
Exploits of the Fifth 154 Chapter 11
Ketch versus Submarine 158 Chapter 11
George on the Spot 160 Chapter 11
Sixth in the Jungle 161 Chapter 11
Track-Worn and Air-Borne 163 Chapter 12
Advance in the Huon Peninsula 169 Chapter 12
Refreshing Bonegilla 172

Chapter 12

Photo album No.2 asstd

Chapter 13

Busu River Crossing 175 Chapter 14
Courier of the Skies 177 Chapter 14
Torres Strait Force Signals 180 Chapter 14
"C" Corps Signals in the West  184 Chapter 14
Signals in Darwin   I86 Chapter 14
Jungle Spiders   188 Chapter 14
Make Way for the Ladies  189 Chapter 14
Roll of Honour  194

Chapter 15

Ack * * *

The Editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance and co-operation of. . . .

The photographic departments of the Military History Section and the Commonwealth Department of Information; the aerial view of Bonegilla was supplied by the R.A.A.F.

The Commanding Officers and artists of the L.H.Q. Cartographic Coy., Army Cinematographic Section, Directorate of Design and "Salt", in addition to contributing artists from units within the Australian Corps of Signals.

Consolidated Press Ltd. for the original print of the colored portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey.

The "Sydney Morning Herald" for permission to reprint the poem "Reverie".

"Through"-the last magazine published by Signals 8 Aust. Div. in Malaya-from which "Sporting Stars of the Eighth" and "Symphony of Signals" are reprinted.

"Jimmy--official publication of the Royal Corps of Signals -in which "Conversation Piece" and "Jungle-Oblique-Toc" originally appeared.

To the above, and to all contributors of articles and ideas which materially aided the production of "Signals" go the thanks of

THE EDITORS.

 
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