[ARC5] Help needed: PT boat restoration.

[Geoff]

I hesitate to speak up here as just about everyone on this list has better 
knowlege of WW2 electronics than i do but I observe many American WW2 
observers view the war from a post war perspective. If you take a pre-war 
point of view, the united states having endured ten years of severe economic 
depression, a really dominant isolationist main stream political position 
( 90% plus in public opinion polls pre Dec 7th if I remember correctly), the 
US armed forces being 7th largest (also if i remember correctly) in the 
world, severe treaty limitations on the size of the navy, extremely tight 
Army, Navy budgets for the last decade while technology- electronics- 
aircraft- armored vehicles- naval vessel- were undergoing huge conceptual 
shifts and very rapid, technological development, well I am surprised the 
American armed forces had anything worthwhile to fight with.


It seems to me a lot of stuff not worth saving from the trash in 1950 was 
worth it's price in gold in 1941