[ARC5] Radios at Midway

[Bob Macklin]

The radio operator in the SBD was also a gunner! Yes he had a swivel seat.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"


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Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [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>
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>>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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