“Mom, I’m with you all the way.”

A letter from Lieutenant Marshall Levin, son of Lena Levin, who was assembling microphones for oxygen masks on the Pilot Line in 1944, read:

Dearest Mom:
It was sure a surprise to hear that you are working at a war job. If that is what you want to do, and it isn’t too hard on you, I say more power to you. My oxygen mask has a Shure microphone in it. When I got it, I wondered how it would stand the hard usage we give it, but I’ve been using it a long time and it is still working perfectly.… You can tell the girls that the Microphones have been on some of the toughest raids in the war.
So long for now.
Love,
Mac

Inside the oxygen mask of this United States Air Force soldier is an MC-1 Microphone developed by Shure. The microphone was designed to overcome acoustic problems created when microphones were used inside masks worn by pilots and flight crews at high altitudes. The microphone allowed those aboard a plane to communicate with each other as well as with ground forces.
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