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

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Incidentally, the modification that resulted in a DZ in blimps being a DZ-a 
was that the loop operating rod and support is on the bottom of the 
controller-indicator with the rod extending through the floor of the control cabin.

In a message dated 5/2/2011 5:14:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ersmar at verizon.net writes: 
> 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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