[ARC5] Off topic German and US Tank Radios

[J. Forster]

Somewhere, I've seen a picture of a German soldier using a WS 19.

-John

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>      The Schneider book talks about the Germans capturing, intact, a
> British command vehicle with its radios, which they sent back to a rear
> area to be analyzed. No results given. Also, they talk about some German
> tank platoon commanders turning off their receivers when they received
> ridiculous orders from higher-ups. (Like Nelson putting his telescope to
> his blind eye early in his career when he did not want to see signal
> flag orders from the flagship.)
>
>      I have seen German WW II radio units and though I never analyzed
> them, they were built physically differently than either U.S. or Brit
> sets. Japanese sets I have seen seemed to be rough copies of pre WW II
> American gear. In fact, the Imperial Japanese Navy was in contact with
> Aircraft Radio Corp. in the 1930s, seeking to buy equipment.
>
>   - Gordon White
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