[ARC5] Tu-4 book citation

[Mike Everette]

The Tu-4 book I have been referring to is:

"Tupolev Tu-4: Soviet Superfortress," by Yelim Gordon (Russian aviation writer who lives in Moscow) and Vladimir Rigmant.  The Western version of this book was published in 2002 by Midland, not Osprey; I wasn't remembering that correctly.

The Russians may have purchased ART-13/ATC/TCZ equipment on the US surplus market after the war.  Perhaps other stuff as well... hmm, makes me wonder, is that one reason why there were almost no ARC-5 or SCR-274N connectors to be found, for so many years?  (Only in recent years have these surfaced, on eBay mostly.)

They were also trying to buy up surplus B-29 parts in the US after the war, in particular wheels, brake systems and tires.

If you think the Russkis were the only ones stealing American technology... so were the Germans, before and during the war.  As many know, the Germans built 2 versions of a copy of the National HRO, during the war; and I've seen a German web site which alleges that they were somehow buying ACTUAL NATIONAL PARTS -- dials, tuning condensers -- and conduiting them into Germany through "neutral" Portugal and then Spain.  This site also alleges that a significant number of the German HROs were actually given to German hams who were allowed to remain on the air (!!!!!) during the war -- a few, anyway -- because the Nazi regime wanted to maintain the illusion that "Alles ist in Ordnung" in Germany.   Similarly, there were a few "hams" kept on the air in Nazi-occupied countries, mostly eastern and central Europe.  Not sure what to make of these claims.  I have also read that the British kept a few "ham" stations on the air, with G7 calls, mainly to work these
 German stations to see if any intel could be gleaned that way.  These G7s were of course working for British Intelligence.

Strange stuff indeed.

73

Mike
W4DSE