Repairing Phone Lines

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Mr. McLeod describes the fact that phone wire was vulnerable to shrapnel, and how teams of two would track down and repair any breaks in the wire.

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And all the shrapnel would go down there amongst them lines and tear them all to pieces and you had to fix the whole thing up, put pieces in. You’d have to get... two of you woould have to go out and run the line until you found a break, you keep trying headquarters, you keep trying headquarters until you come into, when you come away from him you knew the break was in there, so that was it. Man it was cold, if it was thunderstorms or anything it didn’t make any difference - rain, everything, you just had to take this in.

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