[ARC5] BC-625-A (The SCR-522 and "A Real Good War")

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

Sounds like a good one Mike

I recently read "Lucky Bastards Club" by one Eugene Fletcher, B17 pilot.  
It goes from his pre-war flying through the ramp-up to B17
acft commander.

And then on to combat pilot.

Lucky Bastards were aircrews that'd made 35 missions.

The combat flying section, in the 8th air force, is an assembly of
letters & notes compiled during the crew's 40th reunion.  There are
explanations of terms like "splasher" & "buncher" that explained
how formations were assembled.  Wow what an adventure those formations
were.  Wow

The book noted formation structure was Curtis LeMay's idea.

And I sure agree with you on the '522 deserving the award for top
interplane (command) 2-way in Europe.  

Odd the Navy didn't adopt it.  They struggled with ARC-4 (civvy WE-233) 
from '42 on until ARC-1 appeared in '44... Of course they carried
at least a BCB ARC-5 to copy the YG-ZB df system

The BC-625 sure established hams on 2 meters in the 50s, didn't it.
But I never used one.  Got on 6m with the TU-75 drone-control xmt
module in '57.

   Marty