[ARC5] WWII blimps over NYC Re: USN WWII Airship Radio Gear

[Gene Smar]

Gents:

     Here's an example of a sub-siting tower that one can still find up and 
down the Jersey and Delaware shores: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodeislander/35875508/ .


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon white" <gewhite at crosslink.net>
To: "Henry Mei'l's" <meils at get2net.dk>
Cc: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] WWII blimps over NYC Re: USN WWII Airship Radio Gear


> 'spotted sub, sank same" was a message from an anti-sub blimp. I was 8
> years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. There was a great deal of
> military action on and over Long Island, where we lived. Armed Coast
> Guardsmen patrolled the beaches, B-17s flew patrols at 50 feet around
> Long Island. There were artillery spotting towers (kind of like fire
> towers only taller) along the coast.
>
>     I suspect the RAV were in a few long range patrol airships in 1940-41.
>
>  - Gordon White
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