[ARC5] B-25 Radios In Germany

[Henry Mei'l's]

I'm farily certain that there  was a certain amount of "liberating" of mil 
radio gear immediately after the war. My now deceased father-in-law 
mentioned someting about getting hold of radio gear that was supposed to 
have been destroyed. But I think in his case it was either German gear left 
in Denmark or in occupied Germany. I farily certain he was in the Danish 
army after the war - maybe sent in as part of the occupying forces in 
Germany after having been involved in , shall I say,  causing "explosive 
disruptions" of German train traffic in Denmark during the war. He was never 
very explicit about all to this.
However my germanized Command set units seem to be part of an officially 
sanctioned program. Maybe this much ado about nothing.
Still, I find the subject an interesting new angle on Command sets.

I also read somewhere that the British ordered German mil radio gear in 
occupied Germany destroyed, but at some point then decicded that the 
components were to be used/reused in getting up local  production of radios 
for the civilian population.

Also read somewhere that the US Navy had no use for captured/surrendered 
German naval craft (difficulties in mainting metric craft ? or maybe a 
political decision) had them dismanteled or used them for target practice. 
I'm certain others on this thread have much more precise and specific 
knowledge about these subjects.
I know the Danish Navy made good use of surrendered German torpedo boats - 
one of my ham radio acquaintances here was radio operator on one of them.
My deparment chief at one of the electronics outfits I worked for was a 
nephew of the Danish admiral that ordered the scuttling of the  Danish naval 
ships at the Copenhagen base in 1943.  (I admire the actions of the Admiral 
but didn't find much to admire in his nephew ;0)

Henry, Cph.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 4:19 AM
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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