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Armed Services Recruit TV To Aid Nation’s Defense and Provide... The world is familiar with the pic¬ ture of generals plotting the course of battles on huge charts at head¬ quarters. Information comes pouring in from couriers, field telephones and walkie-talkies. Often this data is inaccurate because it arrives at second or third hand or is the fruit of faulty observation. Sometimes vital information is hours, or even days, late, despite newest and most scientific methods. “Newest and most scientific” before the era of television, that is. But if another war should come, the generals will be able personally to follow developments along strategic sectors of the front on a battery of video screens. For the past two years our Armed Forces, especially the Army, have been experimenting with field television. In the most extensive trials, at West Point summer maneuvers last year, and “Exercise Flashburn” at Fort Television, the teacher: cameras telecast a lesson in soldering Army equipment. Bragg, N.C., this spring, TV received stern tests under simulated battle conditions. Only regular commercial equipment was used. Crews carried portable, hand-held TV cameras to pick up the ground action under a variety of diffi¬ cult situations. Other cameras were carried on jeeps. Relay transmitting units, mounted on trailers, picked up the signals and sent them 20 miles or more to headquarters. In one air test, a plane-based TV camera circled an area picked for ar¬ tillery barrage. It transmitted its sig¬ nal to a portable transmitter on the ground which, in turn, sent the pic¬ ture on to headquarters. Miles away, the shellbursts were watched on tele¬ vision screens and range-directions issued to the artillery. Kinescope facilities made motion pic¬ tures of the action, and a new gadget called the “Telespot” produced in¬ stantaneous still pictures for close study. The Army has found mobile tele¬ vision valuable for “location, evalua¬ tion and designation of artillery targets; adjustment and control of artillery fire; data transmission; in¬ telligence and reconnaissance; brief¬ ing tactical commanders; observation and control of amphibious landings, river crossings and assaults; and har¬ bor surveillance.” The Air Force has a special angle. At Hamilton Base, in California, it is transmitting TV weather briefings to several parts of the base simultane¬ ously. Officers say briefing informa¬ tion for planes about to take off is disseminated at least 30 minutes faster than by telephone, teletype and radio. The Army, Navy and Air Force have found TV invaluable in giving 16