A soldier of the Signal Corps wears a headset while working with a telephone switchboard at an unknown location in the 1940s
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A soldier of the Signal Corps wears a headset while working with telephone switchboard, canteen and camel cigarettes sit atop the exchange. "Signal Corps soldier operates telephone exchange." Location unknown. 194-
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12/07/1941
09/02/1945
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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South Pacific Ocean
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Soldiers--American