The month of June marks two milestones: the 250th Army birthday and the 165th anniversary of the founding of the Signal Corps ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Japan and the Signal Corps: the Emergency (to December 1941) Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts January 1957 Published on January 1, 1957 . Share & ...