Walkie-talkie
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Walkie-talkie
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Mission Accomplished!
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A United States Marine dodges swiftly across
the battle-scarred slope, takes position behind
a shattered wall that commands the enemy
gun emplacement across the tiny valley.
A shell explodes in a shower of dirt, two
hundred yards away from the enemy gun.
The Marine speaks quietly into the tiny
microphone in his hand. “AK9 to BJ. Left
four zero. Two hundred short.” Miles away,
an American artillery officer issues swift
commands to his gun crew.
Another shell-burst, this time in front of the
target. “AK9 to BJ,” says the leatherneck.
“Left one zero. One hundred short.”
And then, suddenly, a terrific, ground-shak-
ing explosion across the valley . . . the enemy
gun emplacement disappears in a black, bil-
lowing geyser of rocks and smoke and rubble.
The Marine puts the microphone to his lips.
“AK9 to BJ—Mission accomplished! AK9
to BJ—Mission accomplished!”
Mission accomplished—a direct hit! Be- |
cause the miracle of electricity has been put to
work again—in the rugged, compact radio |
transmitter and receiver that rides comfort-
ably across the devil dog's back. “Walkie-
talkie,” the Marines cal! it—a light, com-
pletely self-contained unit that allows con-
stant two-way communication with unham-
pered freedom of movement. On scores of
vital assignments, from spotting artillery fire
to co-ordinating the movement of advance
patrols, the “walkie-talkie” is helping to
make American Marines the deadly fighting
team that they are.
The “walkie-talkie” is only one of many
‘Westinghouse electrical products for Ameri-
ca’s ground forces. In tanks and combat cars
—at artillery and anti-aircraft posts and
communications centers—in the field and be-
hind the lines, more than a hundred kinds of
‘Westinghouse electrical equipment are in use.
Even in base and field hospitals, Westinghouse
X-Ray machines and ultra-violet Sterilamps*
are helping daily to save the lives of wounded
men.
For our ground forces, as well as for our
naval and air forces, every ounce of Westing-
house “know-how” is on the job—to provide
more and more of the deadliest fighting weapons
that skill and ingenuity and hard work can
produce.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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3
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 142, n. 1, 1943
