WW2 era Gen. Dev Lab MT signal corps patch

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I have seen several variations of these.

 

General Developmental Lab? I have spent a good hour googling signals corps in Montana and different variations of what Gen. and Dev means.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

[Bearmon]

There are several of these posted somewhere on the forum, hopefully I can locate the post. they are very interesting and not cheap from what I remember.

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Trying to figure out what it stands for. If there is an army publication or newspaper clipping.

[Bearmon]

As I recall they are college labs used for developing different technologies, I think Harvard and MIT worked on Radar It's killing e I can't find it, I have pictures of about 3 of the different patches and can't locate them.

[ocsfollowme]

I remember that you picked up a set of these with a fssf oval.

 

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Mine in the OP is on felt/wool. Yours was on twill. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235986-fssf-wing-oval/?hl=%2Bfssf+%2Boval

[ocsfollowme]

interesting that a small unit/school had several variations made.

[Bearmon]

There were also ones like yours in that group, if you look at the picture next to the oval there is the edge of one like the yours.

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Do you still have those in #5?

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The CESL is Camp Evans Signal Laboratory

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Corps_Laboratories

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http://www.campevans.org/_CE/html/camp-evans-service-branch-manual-1943.html

 

Maybe the MT stands for Motor Transportation

[Bearmon]

Do you still have those in #5?

I didn't get the grouping got beat out on it, that one still hurts

[PATCHRAT]

looks like the Signal Corps General Development Laboratories was merged with CESL in 1942.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Corps_(United_States_Army)

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In December 1942, the War Department directed the Signal Corps General Development Laboratories and the Camp Evans Signal Lab to combine into the Signal Corps Ground Service (SCGS) with headquarters at Bradley Beach, New Jersey (Hotel Grossman).

 

The the original patch in #1 is pre December 1942.

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thanks Patchrat!

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SCGSS, anyone know what that stands for?

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Signal Corps Ground Signal Service (SCGSS)

 

http://tothosewhoserved.org/usa/ts/usatss02/chapter08.html

 

Signal Corps Provides VHF Command Radio for Army Airplanes

The development of airborne radio and of all other airborne electronic equipment was, of course, the concern of the Signal Corps installations, especially the Aircraft Radio Laboratory, which served the Air Forces at Wright Field in Ohio. To the Signal Corps Aircraft Signal Service fell

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the whole business of developing, procuring, inspecting, storing, issuing, installing, and maintaining those Signal Corps items of radio, radar, communicational and navigational electronic equipment which went into airplanes. SCASS, which had been organized at Wright Field in May 1942,56 proved effective. Until the Army Air Forces took over altogether toward the end of World War II, SCASS performed its task rather well, which was to coordinate the supply and maintenance functions of the Signal Corps with the materiel commands of the Army Air Forces.57 The success of SCASS led General Olmstead to reorganize his Monmouth activities similarly. Combining the General Development Laboratories with the Radar, or Camp Evans, Laboratory, he created in December 1942 the Signal Corps Ground Signal Service (SCGSS) with headquarters at Bradley Beach, New Jersey.58