Description

Black and white photograph of Ervine Rips, Charles Beatty and Robert Kraus sitting in their uniforms on the grass while operating portable radio equipment as part of their R.O.T.C. training. The equipment consists of a boxed radio with large square antenna and headphones that two of the men wear. MIT campus buildings are seen in the distance.

Original captions: "Student officers at the Massacusetts Institute of Technology learn the methods of signal communications 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 stations 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. For Immediate Release. From the News Service Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. July 3, 1941.", "Rips, Ervine M.; Beatty, Charles; Kraus, Robert.