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Signal Corps centennial

NOV 01, 1960
Harold A. Zahl

In June 1960, the US Army Signal Corps celebrated its 100th birthday. In looking back a century, it is apparent that the combat record of this proud Corps and the research so closely interwoven with the force its wartime endeavors brought to bear in conflict, is, in part at least, a story of physics as it unfolded during the past four generations of our Nation’s history.

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Harold A. Zahl, US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

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Volume 13, Number 11

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