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

[Leslie Smith]

Thinking more about this, (how far distance you could see the
working lights in a ship-yard) I figure my memory is completely
wrong here.  It would be difficult to see the sun two hours away
(due to the curve of the earth).   It's good Henk isn't here,
he'd box my ears for mis-quoting him.  Then I WOULD be sorry.

73

Les
[1]vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Bill Harris wrote:

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 on
what 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?  Winking
smile

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.
>
l

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