COMMS AT WAR:KEEPING THE LINES OPEN IN WWII
When Communication Became a Weapon of Victory
When war engulfed the world in 1939, communication became as vital as ammunition. The Commonwealth’s far-reaching network of telegraph cables and wireless stations was suddenly transformed into the lifeblood of Allied strategy.
Loading submarine telegraph cable onto the cable ship Benvennoch, 1958. Massive coils of undersea cable were carefully arranged on deck before being laid across oceans to connect continents.
Orders for naval movements, aircraft deployments, and vital supply routes relied on lines stretching under oceans and across continents, lines that had to be kept open at all costs.
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