. Next to the C.P. group, the Regimental communications section laid out their equipment which provided a complex network of telephone lines and radio calls. Through an independent unit of combined operators from army, navy, and air corps, direct communication was established with every tactical force that supported us.  This eliminated the delays that would arise from going through other headquarters and made it possible for our commanding officers to hold conversation with the bridge of a destroyer in the bay, or the cockpit of a bomber overhead. Within our own lines, telephone wire supplemented radio and reached to every part of the perimeter. Lt. B's communication furnished an example of the speed with which these men work. In less than two hours from the time they had landed from the jump, their wire teams has connected their switchboard with every unit on the field and had hooked into the Regimental network, while at the same time their radio man, assigned to each company, had reported back to the operators in the C.P.