Description

Three students in military uniform practice radio operation skills. The Great Dome and building 7 are visible in the background.

Original Caption: "Student officers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learn the methods of signal communication employed by modern fast-moving troop units. Here R.O.T.C. students Ervine Rips of Tulsa, Okla., Charles Beatty of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Robert Kraus of New York City are operating a portable hand-powered radio station such as might be used for communication between infantry units. Together with many of their classmates, these third-year students will spend part of their summer vacation in further training at the army's elaborate Signal Corps establishment at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Following another year of military and technical studies at Technology, they expect to be commissioned as second lieutenants in the Officers Reserve Corps."