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Signal personnel assigned to infantry and other units wore a cloth oval insignia on the upper left tunic sleeve; this Signals Personnel Badge (Nachrichtenpersonal-Abzeichen) was usually dark green, but could be of another color if worn on other than a field-gray uniform; it displayed a point-down lightning bolt in the unit’s appropriate Waffenfarbe branch color. A radio operator was known as a Funker (derived from Funke – spark), and a telephone operator as a Strippenzieher (line-plugger). Japanese signal soldiers (ts¯u shinhei) and signal officers (denshin) were part of the Engineer Troops (k¯ohei).
A great deal of German military radio equipment was ordered destroyed after the war to prevent its use by any emerging Nazi resistance. JAPAN Radios were secondary to wire in the Japanese communications system; radios were used while troops were advancing, but as soon as a wire system was established the radios went on standby. Messengers were also an important means of communication. On Pacific islands the defenders found it was almost impossible to maintain wire communications owing to the massive Allied artillery, mortar, naval gunfire, and aerial bombardment.
The phrase “Over and out” was incorrect; only “Out” was necessary. German code alphabet The German Phonetische Alphabet or Buchstabiertafeln used both male and female first names (the parenthesized words below are early alternatives). ” The Germans designated some units and formations with Roman numbers: battalions organic to regiments, brigades organic to divisions, army corps, and some other commands. When transmitting Roman numbers by radio and telephone the numbers were spoken as Arabic numbers, but preceded by the word “römisch” (Roman): for example, “römisch ein zwei Armeekorps” (“Roman One-Two Army Corps,” for Twelve Army Corps).