Saturday night I taped a half hour segment from The Military Channel's "World War II Battlefront." It was about the Red Ball Express, the truck convoy system that replenished the Allied forces after D-Day. One scene featured Signal Corps linemen restringing telegraph and telephone wires.

This picture shows a detail of a couple of linemen working on a pole. It looks like they are reusing white porcelain insulators of European design. If anybody else can add more info, please let me know.