[ARC5] B-25 Radios In Germany

[PHIL]

That is so like the army.It was that way when I was in it.
Phil
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From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:19 PM
Subject: [ARC5] B-25 Radios In Germany


> Combining two recent discussion items, I thought I would relate this
story, told to me by one of my college professors.
>
> He had been a US Army infantry officer in Europe in WWII and was an
amateur radio operator as well.  After the war his unit was given the job of
disposing of 100 war weary B-25 bombers.
>
> The B-25's were still fully equipped with radios and he planned to remove
the sets and use them to organize a radio networks for US forces in southern
Germany.  He was told he would do no such thing, to leave the radios in the
airplanes, and a senior officer came down to see him to make sure he
understood the order.  So they wrapped primacord around the wings and tail,
blew the airplanes apart along those lines, and buried them, radios and all.
>
> So, somewhere in Germany, underground, and presumably near a WWII
airfield, are 100 very original 274-N installations and presumably some
BC-375's and BC-348's as well.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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