[ARC5] Turkey Shoot Radios

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 27 Jun 2010 at 19:19, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

> I have been reading a book

What is the name of this book?

> that is the definitive work on the Great
> Marianas Turkey Shoot of June of 1944. It says that the U.S. force
> involved, Task Force 58, was at the time in the process of changing
> over to newer radio equipment, leaving the ships with only two
> channels that they all had in common. And while those two channels
> were over badly overworked they managed to do a superb job of fighter
> direction. 
> 
> Would this be the changeover from HF Command Sets to VHF ARC-5?
> 
> Note that when the inbound Japanese carrier aircraft were spotted TF58
> had 82 Hellcats airborne, launched another 140 Hellcats right away,
> then recovered dozens of others that had been attacking Guam and
> launched them at the attacking Japanese too. And those are only the
> fighters; they had some Helldivers and Avengers aloft as well.  That's
> a lot of airplanes to control, even with 6 fighter directors, and
> doing it with only two channels that worked with all the airplanes
> must have be a challenge, to put it mildly. 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> WB5WSV
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