[ARC5] Radios at Midway

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Squadron Signal publication on the SBD shows a nice photo of the radio and it has RU/GF and LM tucked in forward of the gunner.I doubt that the gunner had to operate it though, but I could be wrong.Was the gunner able to sit facing forward in the SBD?
 Jay KE6PPF





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From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 10:09 am
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radios at Midway


>I would assume that the TBDs at Midway were equipped with RF/GU equipment.
RU/GF.  You can safely bet that TBDs did NOT carry the RU/GF set.
The TBD is a large aircraft with three-man crew.  Almost all early-war USN
ingle-engine aircraft with crew greater than one (i.e., at least a pilot and
unner/radio operator) carried the RU-* (stand-alone model) and the medium-power
P-* radio gear.  See Mike Hanz's excerpt from a 1943 USN training publication
t http://aafradio.org/docs/Navy-radio-gear-1943.pdf which has an entry for a
BD.  A DU-* LF/MF DF loop would also have been part of the installation until
he ZB-* homing adapter eliminated that need.
Only single-crewman single-engine aircraft like the F4F-* would make do with
n RU/GF, at least until the ARA/ATA replaced that.
Mike / KK5F
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