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World War II battlefield communications

All fighting by World War II armies, at a tactical level of battalions, companies and platoons, depended as much upon men being able to exchange information and instructions as upon firepower. Gordon L. Rottman provides an informative study of the use of small radios, field telephones, signal flares and ground-to-air signalling that revolutionised the battlefield. Indeed, the invention of the manportable radio was the single greatest factor that prevented infantry casualties on the scale of World War I. It enabled the coordination of fire and movement, and enabled commanders to reinforce succe.

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