A favourite old tale of the checkered history that brought about the Phonetic Alphabet and Op Brevity Code… retold.

A early radio

 

Send three and fourpence!

 

An early Army signals book

 

 

N for November

 

The NATO Phonetic Alphabet

 

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the US Army, an Unknown cartoonist, US Mint, Matthäus Mérian, Daiju Azuma, Screenland, Elmer Eustice Bucher, Generali, Master of Jean Rolin II, Mcj1800 and the Auckland Museum.