[ARC5] B-17 radios? I think not...

[Mike Everette]

The Navy did take some B-17s on inventory in 1945, and called them PB-1W or PB-1G depending upon how they were outfitted -- as radar search aircraft (early AWACS?) or as air-sea rescue birds.  Not sure if the Navy had any B-17s prior to this, but I wouldn't doubt it.

The PB-1s were direct transfers from surplus USAAF stock to USN.  Since there were extensive mods made to the planes for either mission, it's not unlikely that some of the radios were swapped out, but who knows for sure.

One of my friends, Jim Robinson, K4AYZ, was a radio operator aboard some of the last B-17s in the USAAF inventory during the late 1950s.  The planes were based at Patrick AFB in Florida.  He says their a/c had the ART-13 installed as the liaison transmitter.

73

Mike
W4DSE


--- On Thu, 4/18/13, Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] B-17 radios? I think not...
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:41 AM
> On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 07:34 -0400,
> gordon white wrote:
> > I doubt Navy sets went into Army aircraft, but of
> course stranger things 
> > have happened
> >   - Gordon White
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recall reading somewhere, somewhen that the Navy did have
> some B-17s.
> Obviously they were not flown from aircraft carriers. I
> remember reading
> that with quite a bit of surprise which is why I remember
> it. Strange
> things indeed. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> 
> 
> 
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