[GreenKeys] Old War Story

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And where might one find this book? Just this tidbit has sparked my interest.
 Jay KE6PPF






-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 12:11 pm
Subject: [GreenKeys] Old War Story


This is from a privately published book of Teletype history by Walt Zenner
nd Bob Reek.  Walt was V.P. for R&D at Teletype at the time of his
etirement.
"Immediately after the Japanese attach at Pearl Harbor...The Army Signal
orps was asked if they would need any teletypes during the war and
hey replied, 'No -- this war will be fought over the telphone.'
"As a result of this Teletype had to find other war work.  The Hudson
otor Co. had a prime contract to make machine guns and Teletype became
 subcontractor, committing its full capacity to making machine gun parts.
"Before factory work actually started on machine gun parts, the Signal
orps was back to Teletype saying that their first answer was incorrect --
hat teletypes would be needed -- in very large numbers.  The reason
iven for the change was the recognition that much of the communication
ould be by radio which could be intercepted by the enemy and that there
as no practical technology available for enciphering voice traffic
r for using the human voice for transmission of previously enciphered
garbled) traffic.  Furthermore, much of the traffic was data, which
equired a written record at the receiving end and was better served
y teletypes than by telephones.  The model 15 teletype would be the
work horse' for military communication -- vital to the movement of
illions of men and women, vast quantities of munitions, hundreds of
housands of vehicles and supply items, and thousands of planes to and
rom every corner of the world.
"...The Wrightwood plant went to three shifts, additional space was
eased, and thousands of new employees were hired.  Subcontractors by
he dozen were called upon for help; 'expediter' and 'coordinator' became
amiliar words....Production soared until in 1945 it was 15 times what it
ad been in 1939."

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