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to provide for the French Corps at Ausonia and two more for a lateral to the British Eighth Army. Work also was commenced on another lateral of two circuits to the Eighth Army.
In June the Signal Corps exceeded even these feats by extending the openwire circuits a distance of I4O miles. So rapid was the advance of the troops that all available construction personnel of four Signal battalions, augmented by two construction companies, worked at top speed at the task.
Army depots issued, during the month of May, three times the amount of field and assault wire issued during the earlier static period of the war; and in June they issued the impressive totals of I9,5oo miles of field wire WI IO, 5,ooo miles of assault wire WI3o and 1,5oo miles of spiral 4 wire.
Radio circuits and radio teletype service kept pace in performance with the open-wire circuits, but the pigeon service experienced an "encouraging difficulty." May was a big month for the pigeoneers, with 28 combat lofts out on tactical assignments operating from 15 widely distributed front-line locations, and with an average of about 6o messages carried by the birds daily; but in June the front advanced so fast that it was impossible to settle the lofts quickly enough to serve the various Command Posts before a new advance. However, the same speed of advance which prevented the settling of the pigeon lofts prevented the establishment of wire communications to all hospitals, and the pigeons were a satisfactory means of communication for the Medical Corps in sending its daily reports back to Army Headquarters from forward installations.
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