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Fig. 1: Signal-C5-Front

Cloth: Lightweight tan right twill
Embroidery: Cotton lock stitch

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Fig. 2: Signal-C5-Reverse

Back: Plain NO imprint with starch

Item Name: Signaling 1939 - 1943

Item ID: Signal-C5

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

1. Send and receive a message in Semaphore code, not fewer than forty-eight letters per minute, or in the General Service (International Morse) Code, not fewer than twenty-four letters per minute.

2. Send and receive signals by sound, using the buzzer, sounder, whistle, or bugle.

3. Make a buzzer outfit, wireless outfit of not less than twenty-four letters with the same.

Requirements October 1939 until June 1953

1. Make an electric buzzer outfit, wireless, blinker, or other signaling device.

2. Send and receive in the International Morse Code, by buzzer or other sound device, a complete message of not less than 35 words, at a rate of not less than 35 letters per minute.

3. Demonstrate an ability to send and receive a message in the International Morse Code by wigwag and by blinker or other light signaling device at the rate of not less than 20 letters per minute

4. Send and receive by Semaphore Code at the rate of not less than 30 letters per minute.

5. Know the proper application of the International Morse and Semaphore Codes; when, where, and how they can be used to best advantage.

6. Discuss briefly various other codes and methods of signaling which are in common use.

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