The Signal Corps' role in the Spanish‐American War of 1898 and the subsequent Philippine Insurrection was on a grander scale than it had been in the Civil War.

In November 1917, the Signal Corps’ Pigeon Service received official authorization, and a table of organization for a pigeon company to serve at Army level was published the following June.

The Army Signal Corps would eventually form a balloon unit, which would see limited service during the Spanish-American War. The military’s experiments with balloons continued, and the aircraft ...

Long-range communications capabilities led to the corps helping originate the military weather corps and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army Air Corps and radar. The concept of ...

Following the American Civil War, the U.S. Veterans Signal Association evolved from the original Signal Corps, which was established under Maj. Albert James Myer of the U.S. Army. Maj. Myer developed ...

Lt. General Emmett Paige, Jr., who enlisted in 1947 and rose to the rank of three-star general, spent his entire career in the Signal Corps, becoming its first Black general officer.