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WWII Publicity Brochures for Army Signal Corps Communication
and News Ships
Signal Corps Brochures:
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A Seaborne Communications
Center Brochure explaining jow US Army Signal Corps leap frogged
communications while island hopping in the Pacific by creating seaborne
communication centers. |
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News Ship! The CSN-1
(Communications Ship - News), conceived and built by the Army signal corps for
the press corps and for service to the nation. |
About the brochures:
I found these two one-of-kind brochures in the files of my
grandfather, Colonel O. Howard Davidsmeyer, Sr., who served on General Douglas
MacArthur's staff during World War II. These are the hand-drawn originals.
In a letter dated April 3, 1946 Col. Davidsmeyer described these
brochures. Unfortunately, the letter has become brittle with age and pieces are
missing. What I can read of the letter says:
I thought you might be interested in these "brochures" -- they
cover a couple of my Pacific projects and I made them up at the request of
Gen. Mac's Public Relations Officer (Gen. Diller). They were used by the
Australian Dept. of Information during their 4th War Bond drive -- also by Gen
Diller as a part of War Correspondents training course. The Seaborne job is
the one that caused the "upheaval" in [text missing] Chiefs office in
Washington? The [text missing] ship was Gen Mac's Voice of [text missing]
station and saw action all the way to Tokyo -- The Seaborne Center provided
[text missing] circuits from Tokyo to Frisco (SSB), and were in operation 48
hours after arrival.
OHD
The two brochures are individually hand-made. The sheets are
mimeographed, with the main text reproduced that way, but all the color
lettering and artwork is done by hand. After being hand-colored, the sheets were
glued to both sides of a sheet of boxboard with four holes punched in it.
Artwork for the covers was glued on heavier cardboard, covered with plastic and
sealed inside with tape. Then the covers and individual pages were bound
together with metal clips.
To see the brochures, click on the links at the top of the page.
  
Page created by Jo Davidsmeyer
Posted as a gift for her father, O. H. Davidsmeyer, Jr. in loving memory of O.
H. Davidsmeyer, Sr.
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