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This artillery officer uses the feldfernsprecher 33 (FF33) field telephone of the German military forces of WWII. It was introduced in 1933 as a modern replacement for the older styles dating from the First World War. Although it was a general purpose field telephone designed for wired communications, it could be connected to various radio sets to act as a remote handset. The complete telephone weighed almost 13 pounds and was housed in a bakelite case carried on a leather shoulder strap. Each telephone unit included a press to talk (PTT) handset, switchboard patch cable, generator crank, 1.5 volt battery, and internal framework for the telephone components. The simplest set up was point to point, requiring two sets, but several could be hooked up to communicate with a command post, and up to 20 units could be linked by a switchboard. Headphone (kopfhörer) and throat microphone (kehlkopfmikrofon) could be used with the telephone when it was used by switchboard operators.
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Princess Elizabeth in ATS Uniform, 1944-45 In February 1945, Princess Elizabeth was appointed an honorary second subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and given the rank of honorary junior...
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Winston Churchill, Sudan, 1898 In 1896, Churchill was determined to get a transfer to be a part of the war in Sudan. Many serving officers wanted experience of battle to...
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Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), 1918 Lawrence was a British army officer, diplomat, archaeologist, and writer. In 1914 he worked for the British Museum in Ottoman Syria. When war...
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Captain Meriwether Lewis, 1803Meriwether Lewis was born on 18 August 1774 and joined the United States Army in 1795 at the age of 20. By 1800 he had risen to...