Militaire

1917 · 74502 — Toledo OH: United States Army Signal Corps Laboratory 1917. Edition of 1917. Ephemera. Fair. RARE. Stiff card stock 8 inches by 5.25 inches folded in half resulting in four panels of 4 inches by 5.25 inches. Illustrated. Item has wear and soiling/staining with some creasing. Text and illustrations clear. One panel is devoted to the General Service Code for general signaling and between the Army and the Navy. It shows three figures with flags showing position a dot and a dash. All 26 letters and number 0 to 9 have the matching dots and dashes illustrated. A facing panel has the Two-Arm Semaphore Code with hand flags for short distance signaling within the Army. The reverse side has Letter codes and related information on both panels. Letter Codes used with both General Service and Two-Arm Semaphore Codes with information specific to Infantry Cavalry Field and Mountain Artillery and Coast Artillery Shore-Tug Signals. The final section is Conventional Visual Signals Both Codes. This is a handy pocket-sized reference. There was a fuller and full size War Department manual available at this time. WWI ephemeral items on any topic rarely survive a few years let alone a century. This is even more the case for items related to codes and signals. United States Army, Signal Corps Laboratory unknown