[ARC5] B-25 Radios In Germany

[Robert Eleazer]

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