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Apr. 18 Serving as reconnaissance eyes and ears are the Army Signal Corps new 8-pound tactical television camera pointed by Pvt Craig Heatley (wading River, L.I. NY) (right) and the handy talkie radio operated by Pvt William Fitzgerald (West Hempstead, L.I. N.Y.) The camera's transmitter or sending station is carried by Pvt Heatley. It has built-in batteries, freeing the cameraman for the first time from the cumbersome cable connections on earlier models that harnessed him to a separate power supply and limited his movement afoot. This latest combat aid was developed by the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. and built to Army Signal Corps specifications by the Radio Corporation of American

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Afoot Batteries Built-in Cameraman Connections Cumbersome Developed Earlier Ears Fitzgerald Freeing Handy Harnessed Laboratories Monmouth Operated Pointed Reconnaissance Sending Separate Specifications Tactical Talkie Transmitter


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