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For more details on this topic, seeAeronautical Division, U.S. Signal CorpsandAviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps

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On 1 August 1907, an Aeronautical Division was established within the Office of the Chief Signal Officer (OCSO). In 1908, onFort Myer, Virginia, theWright brothersmade test flights of the Army's first airplane built to Signal Corps' specifications. Reflecting the need for an official pilot rating, War Department Bulletin No. 2, released on 24 February 1911, established a "Military Aviator" rating. Army aviation remained within the Signal Corps until 1918, when it became theArmy Air Service.

During World War I. Chief Signal OfficerGeorge Owen Squierworked closely with private industry to perfect radio tubes while creating a major signal laboratory at Camp Alfred Vail (Fort Monmouth). Early radiotelephones developed by the Signal Corps were introduced into the European theater in 1918. While the new American voice radios were superior to the radiotelegraph sets, telephone and telegraph remained the major technology of World War I.

A pioneer inradar, ColonelWilliam Blair, director of the Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, patented the first Army radar demonstrated in May 1937. Even before the United States entered World War II, mass production of two radar sets, theSCR-268and theSCR-270, had begun. Along with the Signal Corps' tacticalFM radio, also developed in the 1930s, radar was the most important communications development of World War II.

During World War I, women switchboard operators, known as the "Hello Girls", were sworn into the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Despite the fact that they wore U.S. Army uniforms and were subject to Army regulations (Chief OperatorGrace Bankerreceived theDistinguished Service Medal), they were not givenhonorable dischargesbut were considered "civilians" employed by the military, because Army regulations specified the male gender. Not until 1978—the 60th anniversary of the end of World War I—didCongressapprove veteran status/honorable discharges for the remaining "Hello Girls".[4]