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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