Pictured here is a field phone that was used in WWII and one of the many relics that was on display at this past week-end's demonstration at the Wellsville River Museum by the 4th Armored Historical Group.
The field phone is a predecessor of today's cell phones. It's actually a radio transmitter/receiver. It had a range of several 100 yards and was one of the tools used back in those days for mobile communications. Before the world went digital the only means of mobile communications used radio signals. That's T/SGT Al Winkler doing the demonstration. Al was manning the "comm center".
Quite a difference, eh?
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