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History of the 116th Signal Radio Intelligence Company

Published in Munich, Germany, 1945. PDF download.

The 116th Signal Radio Intelligence Company was a specialized unit of the United States Army responsible for intercepting and analyzing enemy radio communications during World War II. This rare 1945 unit history, published in Munich in the immediate aftermath of the war, documents the company’s service history and includes photographs of its members with individual biographical descriptions — a deeply personal record of the men who served.

The volume also references the unit’s own newspaper, originally titled The Interceptor, which later became The Indicator — a detail that reflects the unit’s intelligence mission even in its informal publications. The paper began publication in June 1945 out of Scheyern, Germany, capturing the transitional period between the end of combat operations and the occupation of Germany.

As a signals intelligence unit, the 116th operated largely in the shadows — their work intercepting German communications was critical to Allied operations but rarely publicly acknowledged. This unit history is one of the few surviving records of their service.

Published in Munich, Germany, 1945. PDF download.