It’s D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the chaotic beaches of Normandy are jammed with men and equipment struggling to establish a toehold in France. Sgt. Bruno Zambon, an artillery spotter, has crawled to a ...

Advantages in communications technology on the battlefield were crucial to saving lives in World War II. The walkie-talkie was one of them.

One of the most thrilling childhood toys for the adventurous 1970s or 1980s kid was probably the toy walkie-talkie. It didn’t matter that they were a very simple AM low-end-VHF radio with a range of ...

In the 1970s, one of the coolest things a kid could have was a walkie-talkie. Whether for secretly talking to friends across the street after bedtime or talking to parents from the tree house, these ...

Back in the day, it was a rite of passage for a kid to have at least one pair of walkie-talkies while growing up. Although recent generations have moved on to smartphones, tablets, or maybe using an ...

GARDAI on patrol acrossIreland are almost totally relying on the use of their own private mobile telephones because the force's 20-year-old walkie-talkie system is so unreliable, the Sunday ...

Walkie-talkies might feel a little old school, but they have some important advantages over smartphones when it comes to communication. They can work in areas that don’t get good (or any) cellular ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After a system-wide communications disruption last month, Sydney trains drivers have been told to carry walkie-talkie radios as a backup ...