[ARC5] [Milsurplus] US Military Aircraft Radios - Opinions

[gordon white]

     When thinking about manufacturing capacity re-directed to the 
Pacific, recall that in mid to late 1944 the powers that be thought the  
war in Europe would be over by Christmas and in the Pacific not much 
after that. There were wholesale cancellations of defense contracts in 
September and October. It was only when (1) the Kamikaze threat popped 
up in the Pacific and then (2) the Germans counter-attacked in Belgium 
in December that there was a great rush to  re-activate a lot of 
contracts. The A.R.C. corporate records amply document that for the 
AN/ARC-5, etc. Whether production of the AN/ARC-3 was ramped up I cannot 
say, but probably not in the late summer or fall of 1944 (unless someone 
has records to the contrary.)

    The realization that the Japanese would fight to the absolute death 
was not  widely realized until after Okinawa and the Kamikase attacks 
proved so deadly.

- Gordon White