Excerpt from The First Battalion: The Story of the 406th Telegraph Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. Army From that time until the Armistice there was no let Up in its activites. The silver bands on the Battalion Standard tell the story. They were awarded by the War Department and are engraved with the following inscriptions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.