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unusual facts about U.S. Army Signal Corps



Cher Ami

Cher Ami (French for "dear friend", in the masculine) was a homing pigeon which had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I and had been trained by American pigeoneers.

Herman R. Staudt

After graduating, Staudt joined the Signal Corps Laboratories, a part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, at Fort Monmouth, first as a field test engineer then as chief project engineer, and then as chief of the Tactical Systems Section.

Obsolete badges of the United States military

A unique obsolete badge situation occurred with General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold, who in 1913 was among the 24 Army pilots to receive the first Military Aviator badge, an eagle bearing Signal Corps flags suspended from a bar.

William Babcock Hazen

One of the duties of the U.S. Army Signal Corps at the time was the management of the Weather Service and Hazen criticized the government's lack of response to the distress of the International Polar Year expedition to Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay (on Ellesmere Island, Canada).


see also

Harold Clark

Harold M. Clark (1890–1919), U.S. Army Signal Corps soldier and the namesake of Clark Air Base in the Philippines

K35

K-35 trailer, a house trailer used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during and after World War II

K37

K-37 trailer, used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps to haul telephone poles, and Cable reel, during and after World War II

Signal Corps in the American Civil War

The United States Senate eventually approved the appropriations bill, over the objections of Jefferson Davis, now Senator from Mississippi, and President James Buchanan signed it into law on June 21, 1860, the date now celebrated as the birthday of the modern U.S. Army Signal Corps.