[ARC5] Blackout ; Lend Lease and ARC-5's

[Bill Harris]

Les:Can't say what went on in California but, in Seattle WA, we had blackout drills  every now and then. Air Raid Warden would let you know if he saw any light emitting from your abode.
The Russian Lend Lease program ran until (about) 1949.  It was a giveaway of about Nine Billion dollars worth of so called "Aid".  A book titled "from Major Jordan's diaries" by Maj. George R Jordan USAAF,  gives a pretty good eye opening account onwhat went thru the "Pipeline" , during his watch, between Great Falls, MT; Fairbanks, AK and Russia,  during WW2. Ton's of HF/VHF gear. Maybe we can find some NIB ARC-5's from there? 
Cheers
de Bill-w7kxb . .



> From: vk2bcu at operamail.com
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:46:49 +1000
> Subject: [ARC5] The comms war - VHF & HF (a bit OT).
> 
> Hello list,
> Some-one with a better knowledge of history may be able to correct me on
> the following point.

 This point is illustrated well by my now-gone friend,
> Henk Bias.  He was a Dutch pilot. He made the point that the Americans
> were so confident they would never be attacked that they took no effort
> at black-out.  He told me it was normal when flying "in" to see the
> lights about 20-30 minutes or so before landing.  In contrast, he said
> there was so much dock-yard lighting in California (this would be tramp
> steamer "liberty ship" assembly) that the west coast cities (ship-yards)
> were visible for about 2 hours from a B-17 before he landed.  He made
> that specific point. 
> I understand Britain survived because of
> US agricultural production and cross Atlantic freight in 20k tonne
> liberty ships.  Ditto for Russia.  I have seen list of material supplied
> to Russia.  USA supplied 5 million pair of army boots to Russia.  That's
> a lot of leather, and a lot of feet. So US industry (and science) was
> able to focus more energy on developing technology.
> 
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