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The EE-8 Field Telephone was used by the Signal Corps from before World War II through the Vietnam War. It was housed in leather, then canvas, and its last production had a nylon case and straps, after the changeover to that material in 1967.

The EE-8 Field Telephone was standardized in 1932 and procurement began in 1937, providing a lighter and more functional unit just in time for the huge mobilization of the U.S. military for WW II. Among other improvements, the EE-8 increased the maximum transmission range of the predecessor EE-5 Field Telephone by six miles or more. utilizes [[ME-22]] maintenance equipment.
==Dating notes==
Just to remind everyone, the 2-digit year on the end of a Signal Corps Order Number is the US Federal Fiscal Year, which at the time and for many years afterwards ran from 01 July of the previous calendar year through 30 June of the current calendar year. So the order for the EE-8 was let sometime between 01 July 1943 and 30 June 1944. The Order Sequence Number is 7859 out of at least 40172 (the highest FY 1944 sequence number currently in my database). A simple straight-line approximation would put the calendar year date for 7859 at 09 September 1943. So the phone would probably have been delivered in October or November of 1943.

==Schematics==
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File:EE-8_Schematic.png|EE-8 Schematic
File:EE-8-A_Schematic.png|EE-8-A Schematic
File:EE-8-B_Schematic.png|EE-8-B Schematic
File:EE-8_Schematic-1.png|EE-8 Schematic
File:EE-8-A and B Schematic.png|EE-8-A and -B Schematic
</gallery>


==Images==
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File:34-450 EE-8 058 8751814737 l.jpg
File:34-448 Coils for EE-4A & EE-8 056 8753010384 l.jpg
File:34-447 EE-4A -5 & -8 055 8752936700 l.jpg
File:34-446 Call bells for EE-4A & EE-8 054 8753010258 l.jpg
File:34-445 Generators for EE-4A & EE-8 053 8751887871 l.jpg
File:PL-58 8752898158 l.jpg
File:EE-8 8751771501 l.jpg
File:34-456 Equipment replaced by BD-71 060 8752936954 l.jpg
File:Photo - Instruction book 10-3-35 014 8753029086 l.jpg
File:GN-38 8752893646 l.jpg
File:GN-38-A 8752893590 l.jpg
File:Ringer MC-131 8751771541 l.jpg
File:Generators for EE-4A & EE-8 053 8709471746 l.jpg
File:EE-8 8709471390 l.jpg
File:Chest BC-5 8751771599 l.jpg
File:GN-38-B 8751771775 l.jpg
File:Handset used with EE-8 061 8709471460 l.jpg
</gallery>

==Related Files==
* TR 1225-10 telephone EE-8, 24 oct. 1938

;{{pdf|TM-11-333.pdf|TM 11-333}}
:War Department Technical Manual
::Telephones 
::EE-8,
::EE-8-A
::EE-8-B
::March 1945


;{{cecom_pdf|EE-8A_Russian_Manual.pdf|EE-8A Manual in Russian}}
:Manual in Russian
::EE-8A
::1943


;{{cecom_pdf|SIG 8-EE-8.pdf|SIG 8-EE-8}}
:Army Service Forces Catalog
:Signal Supply Catalog
:Higher Echelon Spare Parts for
:Telephone
::EE-8
::10 February 1945


;{{cecom_pdf|SIG_7_8_EE-8.pdf|SIG 7 & 8 EE-8}}
:Organizational Maintenance Allowances and Field and Depot Maintenance Stockage Guide
:Telephone
::EE-8; EE-8-A, B, C, D, E
::29 October 1956


;{{cecom_pdf|SIG_10-809.pdf|SIG 10-809}}
:Army Service Forces Catalog
:Signal Supply Catalog
:Fixed Plant Maintenance List
::Portable Field Telephone
::EE-8 ( )
::15 April 1944

==References==
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