[ARC5] B-25 radios

[Mike Morrow]

Wayne wrote:

>I have a book ... It shows that on the B-25C/D it was equipped with
>SCR-274-N ... along with a BC-348 and BC-375.

The last is the old SCR-287-A liason set.

>The B-25G, H, J were equipped with SCR-274-N and a BC-348 and ART-13.

The "best of all" liason sets, the AN/ARC-8 (which was still flying in
some older USAF aircraft in the early 1970s).

It surprises me that a WWII-service B-25 would carry an AN/ARC-8.  I'd
think it more likely that the AN/ARC-8 didn't show up except in B-25s
that were in use after WWII.

In the ETO, there was almost certainly installed in almost every USAAF
aircraft the very important SCR-522-A VHF-AM command set.  Perhaps even
in place of the SCR-274-N.

Other equipment that should have been on board:
a.  SCR-269-* ADF
b.  SCR-595-A Mark III IFF
c.  One of several types of 75 MHz marker beacon receivers
d.  One of several types of interphone equipments.

I don't know if B-25s were normally equiped before war's end with
RC-103-A localizer and AN/ARN-5A glide slope ILS receivers.

Mike / KK5F