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MOBILE RADIO STATION “GETS AROUND”
ITALY—War weary men and women of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy are mighty proud of their mobile radio station, officially known as the Fifth Army Mobile American Expeditionary Station, which gets it [sic] music and its “big time” programs to them wherever they are—in the front lines, or in rest camps. The hard working crew that moves the station’s ten-unit “circus caravan” of jeeps and trailers, and 2-1/2 ton trucks to various points in the combat area making sure that every group is reached at least once a day, have the moving operation down to a fine point. They can take the station down, move it 50 miles (which is the range of the transmitter), and set it up again, all within less than two hours. Here, Maj. Francis L. McAloon, (left), of 67 Bridgeham St., Providence, R.I., who first proposed the idea of a mobile station in North Africa a year ago and developed the Fifth Army station, looks over “spot” news on the station’s teletype with 2nd Lt. Vern Canstensen, of 211-1/2 Second Ave., Clinton, Ia., who is in charge of the station.
Credit: Acme photo by Sherman Montrose for the War Picture Pool